Record ID: WMID-C4209B
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy clasp strap plate of the Medieval period, dating from c. AD 1350 - c. AD 1400. Around 50% of the plate is present, consisting of the top plate. The rest is missing, presumed lost in antiquity. The strap plate consists of a piece of sheet copper alloy metal folded around the strap bar. The edges have been recessed for the frame. No pin slot is present, indicating that it came from a clasp and not a buckle. Three attachment rivet holes are present at the open end of the strap plate. These have an internal diameter of 1.3 mm. The front of the plate has bee…
Created on: Wednesday 29th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2022
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Record ID: WMID-B49217
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete sheet copper alloy plate from a clasp, of Medieval dating (AD 1350 to AD 1450). The find consists of a folded sheet of copper alloy metal, with five surviving copper alloy rivets. The clasp plate is sub rectangular in plan, and irregular in cross section. The left hand exhibits a fold in the metal, which would have originally gone round the strap bar of the clasp. No pin slot is present, therefore indicating that this was a plate for a strap clasp as opposed to a buckle. No signs of decoration on are present on the front of the plate. The back plate has two inscribed lin…
Created on: Tuesday 19th November 2013
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2014
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Record ID: WMID-2543B5
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MODERN
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete stamped or machine pressed copper alloy clog or shoe clasp fastener, of Post Medieval to Modern dating (c. AD 1790 to c. AD 1920). The clasp is sub-rectangular in plan with lobed semicircular protrusions at one end. At this end is an integral, but broken, 'anchor'-shaped hook on the reverse (back) surface. At the opposite end there is a small central hook in the form of a rectangle with rounded corners. This has been pressed such that it is flush to the clasp. The upper surface is ornamented in low relief by stamping from the reverse; the design consists an asymmetrica…
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2012
Last updated: Thursday 1st November 2012
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