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Description: | A complete copper alloy early post-medieval toggle clasp (c. 16th century AD). The main body of the clasp is a convex oval shape, with a transverse ridge at the top end dividing the main body from a small rounded element with terminal knop through which there is a rivet hole. There is another rivet hole at the base of the oval body, just before the pair of transverse ridges that divide it from the aperture below. Below, then, is a circular eye with a sub-rectangular, recessed aperture and at an angle protruding from it a circular suspension-loop, again perforated. This artefact is paralleled by Early post-medieval toggle clasp, Type 7, illustrated in Read (2008, 211; ref. 764). This artefact has a dark-grey colour, cleaned in places, with some small patches of off-white corrosion product. The eye section has been bent upwards slightly as a result of old damage.
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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