File:Book clasp (back plate) (FindID 495677).jpg

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book clasp (back plate)
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Royal Institution of Cornwall, Anna Tyacke, 2012-03-27 10:29:02
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book clasp (back plate)
Description
English: Sheet copper alloy book clasp with expanded bifid terminal at one end and hook at the other. The clasp also retains its shorter rectangular back-plate, though it has broken in half, and its three rivets, holding the front and back plates together, around the leather strap, now missing. The upper face of the front plate is decorated with a longitudinal incised groove that runs from the indented end, between the two sections of the expanded terminal, to about the middle of the clasp where the surface is more corroded. The opposite end near the hook is decorated with two concentric circles around a recessed pressed annulet which surrounds the rivet.

Read (1988) illustrates similar examples on page 78, Nos.445 & 449, which are dated from the 13th to the 17th century.

Margeson (1993) illustrates similar book clasps on page 74, Fig.40, Nos.452-4 that were excavated from datable contexts from the Post-medieval period, c.1550-1700.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cornwall
Date between 1500 and 1700
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1700-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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FindID: 495677
Old ref: CORN-0DB4D3
Filename: DSCN8077.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/375651
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/375651/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/495677
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