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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy post-medieval (AD c.1500-c.1600) hooked clasp, missing its hook and most of one of its domed bosses. The clasp falls into Read's Class D, Type 6: trefoil single sharp-hooked clasps. Similar hooked clasps can be found in Read, 2008, Hooked-Clasps & Eyes, p.75-6, nos.246-51. Overall, it measures 16.3mm long, 24.5mm wide and 5.7mm thick. It weighs 2.71g. The clasp is formed from a cast trefoil of of hollow-domed bosses, each decorated with two ring-and-dot motifs. Each has a laterally projecting border. At the centre, between the bosses is a piercing which probably contained a rivet for connecting the separate hook (now missing). The reverse of one of the bosses and part of another one are filled with a white-ish substance - perhaps lead solder.
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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