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Description: | A copper alloy stapled hasp used to secure the lid of a casket or chest and of Medieval date, about AD 1200 - 1400. The hasp is essentiall rectangular in plan and has a zoomorphic terminal. The animal head faces away from the fitting and has an elongated snout, a moulded brown and moulded ears. The top of the fitting is faceted, so it is pentagonal in section (rectangular with a peaked top). The opposite end bends upwards and then is broken. The break is patinated. The middle part of the bar is swollen. Projecting from the flat base of the bar is a rectangular loop or staple, through which a bolt or padlock would have been fitted.The hasp is 67.8mm long, 6.4mm wide and 18.8mm thick. 15.8g.YORYM-9F8084 is a similar example and cites: "WILT-AF6E80, NMS-D16593, NMS-A99FD5, SWYOR-32D2C5 and SF7578. Excavated examples, all of iron, include some from contexts of c. 1270-c. 1450 in London (Egan 1998, 212-226) and others largely from 13th- and 14th-century contexts in York (Ottaway and Rogers 2002, 2842-4, particularly no. 12362 with animal head terminal).".
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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