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Description: | Incomplete and bent post-medieval copper alloy book clasp eye plate, with the flaring, probably fishtail, terminal missing where broken across two rivet-holes which pierce the engraved 'feather' decoration, as does a transverse line of three perforations. Afurther rivet hole at the other end clips the edge of a slightly raised and projecting rectangular transverse panel before twin projections that are curled around an iron bar. Extant length (unbent) 34mm. Extant width 15mm. For this type of clasp see Margeson 1993, 74-5, pl. XIII. 16th century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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