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Description: | A cast copper alloy folding clasp component. The clasp frame is incomplete and the decorative edge and fragments of the undecorated sides of the frame remain, therefore the strap bar is missing. The broken sides are not recent breaks. The the decorative side of the frame, which originally would be oppisite the strap bar is cast in the form of a human face wheraing a simplistic crown. The crown has two circular perforations as decoration. The eyebrows are formed by obliquely angles ridges, the nose is a sub-triangular in high-relief and the eyes are a low-relief pellet enlosed in a low-relief triangular border. The reverse of the face is hollow. The sides of the clasp are slightly convex on the exterior and concave on the interior. The frame has a dark green/grey coloured patina. It measures 22.43mm long and 15.6mm wide. It weighs 3.6g. In Egan and Pritchard (Egan G. and Pritchard F. 2002 Dress Accessories Boydell Press) there is a similar clasp (No. 568) dated to the 13th to mid 14th centuries.
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