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Description: | A cast copper-alloy folding strap clasp of Medieval date. It has a trapezoidal frame with offset and narrowed bar. The outer edge has a cylindrical bar around which hinges a separately cast flat, rectangular rotating end. This has incised decoration on its front face comprising a rectangular border containing two cross saltires separated by vertical lines. Hinging around the bar is a separately cast plate formed from a single rectangular sheet of copper-alloy that is folded around the bar to create an upper and lower plate of equal size. This has slight frame recesses and a central circular rivet hole at the attachment end with separately cast copper-alloy rivet that has flattened round heads. The entire object measures 12.89mm in width, 34.89mm in length, 4.04mm in thickness and 3.41g in weight. It is of Medieval date similar to an example from London (Egan and Pritchard, 1991: no. 565), c.14th century AD | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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