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Description: | Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy book clasp: blunt-hooked end with grooved slight transverse rectangular expansion, beyond which is a copper alloy rivet securing one end of a copper alloy strip to the reverse. The face is decorated with a large perforated double ring-and-dot and two groups of three engraved lines (the central one longitudinal between two shorter and slightly oblique lines) springing from the remains of a broken transverse line of three perforations with the break continuing at a right angle across another hole from a second line of perforations before the surviving angle of the mostly missing splayed end. Length 52mm. Extant width 22mm. Later 16th-17th century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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