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Description: | A complete copper alloy Early Post-Medieval toggle clasp (c. 16th century AD). It measures 51.2x24.4x4.3mm and weighs 9.3g. The main body of the clasp is a convex oval shape, with a transverse ridge at the top end dividing the main body from a small rounded element with terminal knop through which there would have been a rivet hole. This possibly has the remains of the iron rivet in-situ for there is much iron corrosion around this would be hole. There is another rivet hole at the base of the oval body, just before the pair of transverse ridges that divide it from the aperture below it measures 2.8mm in diameter. Below, then, is a circular eye with a sub-rectangular, recessed aperture measuring 11.4x6.1mm and at an angle protruding from it a circular suspension-loop, again perforated 4.3mm in diameter.This artefact is paralleled by Early Post-Medieval toggle clasp, Type 7, illustrated in Read (2008, 211; ref. 764). This artefact has a dark-green colour, cleaned in places, with some small patches of corrosion product. The eye section has been bent upwards slightly as a result of old damage. Cf. HAMP-140542 on this database.
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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