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Description: | A cast copper-alloy clasp, probably from a post-medieval to modern book fitting. The clasp has been manufactured from two separate cast plates of copper-alloy, secured together by three copper-alloy rivets, all still in place. At the attachment end between the plates traces of leather remain.This end measures 16.96 mm in length and is sub-rectangular in shape with a crescent shaped groove cut from each plate. Either side of this groove, on the edges of the plate, there are rectangular nicks that have deliberately been taken out of the plates. Below the attachment end there is a sub-rectangular protrusion, 24.85 mm long, which terminates in a rounded end. Just before the terminal there is a sub-rectangular aperture, presumably to facilitate connection to the the other side of the clasp. The entire object measures 41.26 mm long, 15.61 mm wide, 5.33 mm thick and weighs 8.4 grams. It has a brown patina with additional areas of green copper-alloy corrosion.
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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