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Description: | Complete cast copper alloy hooked clasp with heraldic rose as the central motif. Trapedoidal shaped eye. 34mm long. The central plate is 15mm in diameter. Similar in Read's 'Hooked Clasps and Eyes', page 95, figure 345. Class E, type 3. Early post-medieval date. Secure context finds from the Thames foreshore date this type to 1500-1550, although they were in all likleyhood in use to a much later period.
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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