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Description: | A complete late post-Medieval copper-alloy clog or shoe clasp (c. 1700- c. 1900).The clasp is sub-rectangular in plan with stepped sides and rounded corners. At each end there is a curving hook or clasp.At the front there is stamped decoration. The narrower end has a saltire cross with an annulet in each angle. The wider end has a group of five annulets with semi-circular marks at each side. At the centre, dividing the narrow end from the wider end, there is a transverse line of seven punched dots. The rear face is plain.This clasp is reddish brown with light green corrosion products.Length: 33.6mm; width: 19.4mm; thickness of plate: 1.1mm; overall thickness: 4.3mm. Weight: 3.62g.For a variety of illustrated types and a description on how these clasps were used, see: Read 1995: 178-179, refs: 1207-1220.Numerous examples have been published by Bailey in Detector Finds (1995: 13-17).Read, B. A. 1988. History Beneath our Feet. Braunton: Merlin.Bailey, G. 1995. Detector Finds. Chelmsford: Greenlight Publishing.
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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