The Portable Antiquities Scheme
MEDIEVAL CLASP
1250
Rotating end from a strap clasp, made from copper alloy. The plate is made from a trapezoidal piece of sheet, with the longest edge bent into a cylinder which retains the outer edge of the clasp's frame. The other long edge has a trapezoidal projection in the centre, and close to this a bar-mount made of thicker copper-alloy sheet is fixed to the plate by a single copper-alloy rivet. Between the bar-mount and the cylinder is a line of rocker-arm engraving. Maximum width of mount, 18 mm. Total width including frame of clasp, 19 mm. Length 9 mm. Thickness 9 mm.
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