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Description: | Sheet copper alloy book clasp, length 41mm, width 13mm, thickness >1mm, weight 2.94g. This example is rectangular in plan, the base is expanded with two triangular notches at the terminal. The forward edge is narrowed and bent round to form a hook. There are two rivet holes, one in front of the other. Artefacts such as this have been discovered in excavations and have been found to predominately date to the 15th and 16th centuries such as the examples discovered in the York excavations (Ottaway & Rogers, 2002, 2937-2939)
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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