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Description: | Part of one side of a Post Medieval cast copper-alloy two-part toggle clasp. The main body of the clasp is a convex oval shape, with a transverse ridge at the top dividing the main body from a small convex circular section with smaller terminal knop. There is an attachment hole through the circular section. There is another, smaller hole near the base of the oval body, just above the pair of transverse ridges at the base. The hole contains traces of iron corrosion. Below these transverse ridges is the worn and broken remains of the toggle or loop section, now missing to old breaks. The main oval body and circular section are concave on the back, the rest of the back is flat. It is 36.6mm long, 13.2mm wide and 5.1mm thick, it weight 4.17 grams.It is very similar to Read (2008, 210-1) ref. 763-4 which he catagorises as early post-medieval toggle clasp, Type 7, which he dates to the 16th or 17th centuries AD. HAMP-140542 on this database is also similar.
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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