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Description: | A incomplete copper alloy Post Medieval book clasp fitting dated c.1550-1650. The fitting is roughly rectangular in shape with a flaring 'fish-tail' attachment end and a broad hook at the terminal end. The 'fish-tail' end is comprised of three lobes with a circular rivet through the central lobe. The front is decorated with raised decoration consisting of concentric rings, pellets and lines. there is a further hole for a second rivet along the midpoint of the main body of the fitting. Similar clasps may be seen in Margeson's 'Norwich Households', pp.74-5, no's: 453 and 454. These, Margeson suggests, both date to the second half of the 16th century.Numerous book fittings of this type are recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see finds: IOW-3B85F4, DENO-596D98, HESH-0FA366, IOW-347A31, KENT-F13B17, SUSS-918036, SWYOR-1FC9B4 and WMID-2DB371. Reference: Margeson, S.1993. Norwich Households: The Medieval and Post-Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-1978. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 58
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