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CLASP

Unique ID: WILT-48F4D8

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

A copper alloy Medieval folding strap clasp consisting of a frame or loop with a folding sheet metal closure wrapped around the outer edge of the frame. A bar mount is attached with a single rivet. It is a sub rectangular frame 13.73mm from the bar to which the plate is attached to the outer edge, 12.26mm in width. There is slight narrowing of the frame towards the plate and the outer and inner bars are thinner than the sides of the frame, but no rivets can be seen, it appears to have been cast as a whole. The buckle plate is also sub rectangular, a sheet of metal wrapped around the bar end, folded back on itself and tapering away from a width of 8.44mm to 6.59mm where there are the broken remains of a rivet hole. It weighs 1.92 grams. There is no decoration.

See Whitehead, R, 2003, Buckles 1250-1800, Greenlight Publishing, p40/41.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1300
Date to: Circa AD 1400

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 26.28 mm
Width: 12.26 mm
Weight: 1.92 g

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Other reference numbers

Other reference: E2015 - 44

Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Dorset (County)
District: West Dorset (District)
Parish or ward: Sydling St. Nicholas (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SY6396
Four figure Latitude: 50.76240318
Four figure longitude: -2.52597106
1:25K map: SY6396
1:10K map: SY66NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

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Created: 8 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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