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Description: | A copper-alloy box hasp of probable Medieval date.The piece is straight-sided, tapering from the hinge to the distal end. The hinge element has a transverse cylindrical slot containing the iron axis bar; at the centre is a vertical slit, at which point a length of copper-alloy wire has been looped around this axis bar. A transverse ridge marks the base of the hinge. The rest of the hasp is of 'D-shaped' section and is divided in two by a cuboidal moulding, the upper surface of which is decorated by two transverse grooves. Below this moulding, there is an upward step in the underside of the hasp, the purpose of which was probably to accommodate the upper portion of a corresponding lock-plate. The hasp loop extends backwards at 90 degrees from the underside of this lower portion. The piece terminates in an upturned handle with squared-off end.Length: 53.3mm; width: 8.9mm; thickness: 5.2mm. Weight: 8.61g.Similar hasps, albeit in iron, were found in excavations in London (Egan 1998: 81 - 84). Hasps of this size and form would probably have been used to secure caskets and would have operated in conjunction with a lock-plate and sliding bolt mechanism (ibid. 66, fig. 45).
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