Record ID: SOM-79099E
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy book clasp of Howsam type A.1.2 (2016, 30-31), made from copper alloy and cast in one piece dating to 1100-1500. The terminal comprises three sections; the zoomorphic head, its central attachment point and its projecting terminal loop. The head is made of a large flat-sided terminal knop. It is crudely zoomorphic in profile, with a pointed brow-ridge on top with two rounded ears behind, a nose at the end and is pierced transversely by a circular hole that is slightly broken on its upper surface. The central part is circular and domed, flat on the back and…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2019
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Record ID: DOR-C1AF3D
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy book clasp dating to c.16th to 17th century. The fitting consists of a rectangular plate with a hooking tab at one end and a flaring scalloped fan tail at the other. The hooking tab end is expanded then narrowed in a T-shape and decorated with two wide vertical grooves then bent into a hook. The front face of the fitting is decorated with a feather like herringbone pattern at the terminal end, with two rivet hole indentations spaced vertically, in the mid section there are linear incised lines that are arranged in the form of an arrow around three countersunk holes arra…
Created on: Friday 17th March 2017
Last updated: Thursday 11th October 2018
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Record ID: SOM-7CE108
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
A Medieval copper alloy book clasp of Howsam type A.8.1, probably dating to c. AD 1350-1450. The object is rectangular and made of a single folded sheet of copper alloy. At the attachment end are three rivet holes with two separately made copper alloy rivets still in situ. The sheet narrows at the folded end, creating a rectangular projection. The outer edge of the obverse has been decorated with a cabled design, made from a series of diagonal incised lines and defined by a rectangular border made of up two parallel lines of pecked dots on each edge. The corners of this border are joi…
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 18th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milborne Port CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-1D29E5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper alloy mount dating to the period c. AD 1300-1400. It consists of a central circular convex boss, with four arms projecting from the cardinal points. Two of the arms terminate in old breaks. The existing two arms expand in width away from the central boss and terminate in trifoliate (fluer de lis) mouldings. Each arm has a circular rivet hole trhoguh the terminal. The rivets are missing. The central circular boss is 18.62mm in diameter, and it rises to 9.49mm forming a dome above the main body of the mount. The reverse of the mount is concave in the centre…
Created on: Monday 15th February 2016
Last updated: Monday 28th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Withycombe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-B923B8
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North East Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper alloy book clasp of Howsam type A.1.3 and medieval date. Cast circular plate with central drilled aperture of diameter 4mm. The plate is decorated with finely incised radial lines within an incised border, detailing which retains gilding. At one end a straight edge bears vertical incised decoration, also retaining gilding; from its ends spring a pair of opposed lugs bearing worn holes of diameter c.1.5mm which would have held a bar in the same plane as the plate. Opposite these paired lugs, a longer centrally placed lug of length 13mm bears a drilled hole of diamete…
Created on: Tuesday 21st May 2013
Last updated: Monday 1st February 2021
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Record ID: SOM-BB98B5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Medieval copper alloy strap fitting, probably dating between the 15th and 16th centuries and possibly for a book. It is has a broadly trefoil shaped plate which is bent down at the tip. There are two circular holes in the plate, a smaller one near the tip and a larger one through the centre. The offset strap bar is thin and one end is twisted and probably broken. There is a transverse groove separating the strap bar and the trefoil plate. The strap fitting is worn and corroded. It is 25.7mm long, 18.8mm wide and 2.5mm thick. It weighs 3.27 grams. The large central hole is remin…
Created on: Wednesday 15th February 2012
Last updated: Friday 16th November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'stogursey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-3630E5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hook piece from a copper alloy Post Medieval (c.1550-1750) book clasp. It is a sub-rectangular piece of copper alloy sheet, with a slightly flared attachment end. At the opposite end is a curved hook (3.6mm wide) the end of which is missing. Below this the main body of the clasp is 9.0mm in width, 9.1mm at the attachment end. At the centre of the attachment end is a perforation through the upper surface for a rivet, now missing. Towards the hook end there is stamped decoration within two fields delineated by transverse zigzag lines. Each field is filled with an 'eye' shaped object: …
Created on: Friday 17th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.