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Description: | Incomplete medieval copper alloy hinged book clasp, a cast loop with a central hole and a transverse hole through an animal-head terminal. Two arms, that would have held the ends of a spindle on which a missing sheet plate would have hinged, have been broken across the spindle holes. Cf. Egan 1998, nos. 919-25. Width 10mm. Extant length 16.5mm. c.1350 - c.1450. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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