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Description: | An incomplete gilded copper-alloy hasp from a medieval box or casket. It is an elongated wedge shape with sides which taper towards a three-dimensional zoomorphic terminal. The terminal is made up of two small knops representing ears, indentations for the eye sockets and a raised spatulate extension forming a nose. From the head a narrow neck extends upwards to an expanded area consisting of a moulded triangle pointing upwards to a transverse rectangular moulding; this area is decorated with two raised circles. From this point the body of the mount extends upwards to an almost 45 degree backwards bend. This terminates in a worn break.The reverse of the mount is flat and undecorated, with a large rectangular attachment loop projecting downwards from behind the collar. Traces of gilding remain on both sides of the mount. The metal is a mid reddish-brown colour and is worn. The mount is 57.7mm long, 11.6mm wide, 3.1mm thick (11.8mm thick including loop) and weighs 10.5g.Compare WILT-AF6E80, NMS-D16593, NMS-A99FD5, SWYOR-32D2C5 and SF7578. Excavated examples, all of iron, include some from contexts of c. 1270-c. 1450 in London (Egan 1998, 212-226) and others largely from 13th- and 14th-century contexts in York (Ottaway and Rogers 2002, 2842-4, particularly no. 12362 with animal head terminal). Several of the York examples have bent-up plates similar to this example, suggesting that their lock-plates projected from the surface of the box.
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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