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Description: | A fragment of an early post-medieval cast copper-alloy toggle-clasp: the toggle-end dating to c. 16th - c.17th century AD. The fragment consists of a raised and protruding toggle bar at one end, at the end of a plate decorated with symmetrically cast bifurcated knops on both sides of a small circular rivet hole. The toggle bar is an applied broadly lunate bar mount, seemingly riveted in place. The object ends abruptly through the middle of its central openwork section, a natural weak point, due to old damage. A similar example can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 209; ref. 754). Read has identified this type as an 'Early post-medieval, Type 1' toggle-clasp, although he mentions that 'insufficient information precludes attempting a classification...' (Read 2008, 208). The artefact has a general mid-green colour over a red-brown metal. The toggle end has been bent upwards 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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