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Description: | An early post-medieval (1500-1700) copper alloy toggle clasp of Read Type 3. The clasp consists of a plate with a 4.92mm diameter piercing at the centre. There is a rivet hole to one side, 2.08mm, flanked to its other side by a transverse groove and in turn flanking an edge decorated with diagonal ribs in a ropework design. To the other side of the larger piercing is a double rib before a rounded knop 5.96mm in diameter and flat to the underside. Both long edges of the plate have two deep cusps either side of a worn cluster of three projecting knops.Measures 30.23mm in length, 14.42mm in max. width and 3.01mm in max. thickness (at the knop). The plate is otherwise 1.38mm thick. The clasp weighs 2.50g.
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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