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Description: | A complete catch piece from a cast copper-alloy post-medieval book-clasp. The artefact is sub-rectangular in shape, with a flared and cusped attachment end, with three incurving removals. There is a rivet hole at this end surrounded by a raised circle within a larger circular recess. There is a further hole at the catch end that is flanked on each side by incised longitudinal lines that increase in length as they travel away from the perforation giving the effect of a triangle at the upper apex of which is the hole. Above this is a transverse zone with incised borders featuring zig zag decoration. At the other ends arms protrude at each side and curl back round on themselves to retain a separate copper-alloy bar of circular cross-section. This artefact is of a now red-brown metal with some light-green corrosion product.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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