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Fitting: postmedieval: copper alloy
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Northamptonshire County Council, Steven Ashby, 2007-08-30 11:06:39
Title
Fitting: postmedieval: copper alloy
Description
English: A late medieval cast copper alloy book clasp, measuring 62mm long, 10mm wide, and 2mm thick. It has a pointed terminal with a bulbous end, which may be a debased animal head (such zoomorphism is common on book fittings). This terminal abutts a large trapezoidal field, decorated with opposing obliques/ chevrons, and featuring a circular central perforation. When in place on a book, a peg would fit through this hole, holding the volume closed. A short, narrow neck connects this feature with a longer, bordered rectangular field (the attachment plate), in which no ornament remains visible. This field adjoins a flat plate set at a slightly lower level, which retains traces of gilding, but is now broken across a perforation. The entire clasp is deformed, such that the two ends now lie at c.120 degrees to one another.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Northamptonshire
Date between 1350 and 1500
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1350-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 191580
Old ref: NARC-6922A4
Filename: NARC-691BA5 MC strapend.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/148586
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/148586/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/191580
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(Reusing this file)		 Attribution-ShareAlike License version 4.0 (verified 27 November 2020)
Object location52° 25′ 13.44″ N, 0° 48′ 08.47″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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