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Description: | A complete Medieval sheet copper-alloy book fitting (c. 1350-c. 1500).It is formed of a single sheet of copper alloy folded in half through 180° at the terminal and secured at the attachment end with a single off-centre iron rivet. A circular lobe adjacent to the terminal is hollow on the underside. From the lobe there is a protruding terminal broadly triangular in plan and looped in profile. The rear face is plain and has a circular hole, 2.7mm in diameter, directly behind the lobe.The surfaces are coarse, buff and light green. There is no indication of any decoration or surface treatment.Length: 29.5mm; width: 11.9mm; thickness at lobe: 5.9mm. Weight: 2.13g.Similar book clasps, usually made in two pieces with the looped boss hinged separately from the attachment end, are known from late 14th- and 15th-century contexts in London (Egan 1998, pp. 277-280, nos. 919-925). They were attached to straps on the book cover and the hole fitted over a separate peg on the opposite cover; the loop could have held a cord to facilitate removal.Similar fittings have been recorded on The Portable Antiquities Scheme database. See finds: HAMP-B4A384; HAMP-FA9D90; NMS-035251; NMS-9F7A90; NMS-F40298 and WILT-FB8A63.
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