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Description: | Incomplete post-medieval sheet copper alloy hinged book clasp with most of the fishtail terminal missing. The hinge bar swivels within two rolled over hinge pivots. There are two rivet holes, that near the terminal within a punched ring and surrounded on the rear by a patch of decayed iron. Near the hinged end the other hole lies within a V-shaped gap left plain at the rear of a punched impression of closely spaced longitudinal grooves. Cf. NMS-D19CE3. Extant length and width 43.2 and 21.5mm. 16th century.Field L10 | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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