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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy book clasp of Post-Medieval date. It is formed from flat upper and lower plates that are rectangular in form, the lower plate now incomplete due to old breaks. The upper plate has a flaring open end with wavy outer edge, and the two plates are held together by separately cast copper-alloy rivets positioned at the open end and towards the middle of the plates. At the opposite end the uper plate has an integral rectangular hook. The entire object has been bent to an angle of ninety degrees due to post-depositional damage. It measures 16.43mm in surviving length, 12.89mm in width at flaring end, 1.58mm in thickness, and weighs 0.55g.This is a very small book clasp of Post-Medieval date. Larger examples from Norwich (Margeson, 1993: nos. 453-454) suggest a date range in the 16th-17th centuries AD for the current example.
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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