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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy single-looped folding clasp of medieval date, the plate is incomplete. The frame is rectangular with a sheet roller wrapped around the recessed outer edge of the frame. The roller is not tightly coiled around the outer edge of the frame, it is broadly oval in plan and on its outer edge is a separate mount which is rectangular in plan and undecorated. The mount (10.35mm in length and 3.8mm wide) is attached to the roller through a central concealed rivet. The outer frame is slightly curved and decorated with two horizontal ridges, located just above the recessed and narrowed bars for the plate and roller. The damaged plate is sub rectangular in plan 13.8mm in length and 12.45mm wide. It is formed of a single sheet of copper allow wrapped around the recessed and narrowed frame, no rivets or decoration are visible.The clasp is 26.55mm in length, 12.95mm wide, 4.15mm thick and weighs 2.23 grams.Similar clasps are illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991), p. 118 no 553 and 554-559.
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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