Rights Holder: Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service
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Unique ID: SF8836
Object type certainty: Certain
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Copper-alloy plate which may be the expanded end of a page-holder. It is basically rectangular, 23 x 20 mm, with the upper long edge having two incurved cut-outs. Between the two is a neat rectangular patch of solder, 4 mm wide and 9 mm long, as if the arms of the page-holder had been attached with solder. The plate is decorated with rouletted lines; the reverse has some scratched marks, but these appear not to have any meaning. Page holders are tweezers with expanded ends and sliding loops on the arms; it has been suggested that they served to hold down bulky parchment pages when a book was open.
Class: page holder
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1200
Date to: AD 1500
Quantity: 1
Length: 20 mm
Width: 23 mm
Weight: 1.67 g
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st May 2002
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Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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