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Description: | A cast copper-alloy post-medieval toggle-clasp of 16th- or 17th-century date. At one end the flat object has a rectangular terminal (W.: 17.3mm) with cusped ends and a transverse median groove. There are diagonal incisions decorating the half above the groove with a cabled (ropework) design. At the base of this terminal element is a central attachment perforation that retains the orange/brown corroded remains of an iron rivet. Below the terminal the mount incurves to a waist (W.: 7.1mm). Below is a large, central circular openwork hole (Dia.: 7.0mm) either side of which the mount expands to a max. width of 17.0mm. These expanded sides both have trilobed outer edges. Below is a further waist (W.: 6.7mm) before a further expansion around a rivet hole; this also retains the orange/brown corroded remains of an iron rivet. The outer edge on the upper surface is slightly bevelled; the lower surface is completely flat.Below the second rivet is a transverse ridge bearing the same diagonally incised decoration as the terminal. This is echoed on a final ridge at the base of the object; this latter is convex while the others are flat. The ridges are above and below a central rectangular aperture (11.4 by 6.0mm) at this 'eye' end of the artefact. This is recessed between the ridges, but the same thickness as the upper part of the mount. Towards the base of the eye section is a perpendicular integral loop (Dia.: 8.3mm).Complete eye and toggle sections from similar clasps can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 208-209; refs. 753-755). These two sections lock together, one with an eye and the other with a toggle-bar. The artefact has corroded to a dark-green colour with areas of overlying off-white corrosion product.
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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