Record ID: LEIC-0E7705
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late Medieval to Early Post-Medieval copper-alloy book fitting, dating to c.AD 1400 - 1600. Howsam type A.3.  It is sub-rectangular and formed of one sheet copper alloy. The plate has a flared and scalloped open end. At the opposing end terminates in an old break. It is decorated in the centre with an annulet and three concentric rings. At the scalloped edge are six circular rivet holes.  Length: 62 mm Width: 27 mm Weight: 9 g See https://finds.org.uk/counties/findsrecordingguides/book-clasps/#Clasps_with_hooks. Well-dated examples from excavated…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 22nd April 2024
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Record ID: OXON-50ED12
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete pierced copper alloy hooked plate most likely a book fitting dating to c. AD 1500-1700. The object is made of a rectangular flat plate which is truncated by a straight diagonal break running across one surfaces. At its terminal there is a projecting rectangular tab that is slightly crescent in profile. The wider plate is pierced by a circular hole (3.5mm diameter) indicating it would have been mounted on an object. It has a reddish brown somtimes green brown patina, The object is 36.4mm long, 17mm wide, and the metal is 0.9mm thick. It weighs 3.53 grams. …
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4F72CC
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy book clasp. A pair of plates of thickness 1.1mm, the outermost with straight sides and with a short U-shaped lug at one end, expanded and bifurcated towards a fishtail terminal at the other, where it is raggedly torn by rough removal from its setting. Howsam Class A.3. A plain subsidiary plate, perhaps a reinforcement or from the inner side of a book cover, is aligned with the main part of the object at its narrower end. Four stamped double ring and dot of diameter 7.1mm appear on the display side, two on the narrower part and one apiece on the branching or bifurcated fish…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calcethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-AE2E8B
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to early Post-Medieval cast copper alloy umbonate book mount (Howsam type B.1.2) dating c. AD 1350-1550.  The tri-lobed object has a central raised, hollow, circular boss with a raised collar at the base surrounded by three incomplete attachment lugs that each have a circular rivet hole truncated by worn break. The reverse of the object is concave in line with the boss.The book mount has a dark green patina.  Measurements: length 19.89mm, width 18.92mm, diameter of boss 10.44mm, thickness 6.96mm, weight 4.56g. Discussion…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 11th April 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-3046A5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy book fitting; a book clasp hook-piece of Medieval to early post-Medieval date, about AD 1400 - 1600, of Howsam type A.3. The plate is broadly rectangular, with a slightly flared attachment end which has a single rivet hole through it containing traces of iron. There is a blunt hook projecting at the other end.  The plate is corroded and appears to be undecorated. It has a brown and green patina with rust around the rivet. Length: 45.04mm Width: 12.12mm Thickness of plate: 1.23mm Weight: 3.04mm See https://finds.org.uk/counties…
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Saturday 13th April 2024
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Record ID: LEIC-85DA61
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper alloy book-clasp, dating to c.AD 1200 - 1400. Howsam type A.8.4 The clasp is formed of a single sheet of copper-alloy, folded in half at the terminal and secured at the attachment end with a single rivet. There is a further single flat headed rivet in the loop. There is a circular lobe adjacent to the terminal, it is hollow domed. Now missing from the lobe is an attachment loop.  Length: 30.5 mm Width:  9.8 mm Thickness: 3.9 mm Weight: 4.3 g
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: LEIC-855F8D
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post-Medieval copper alloy book fitting, dating to AD 1400 - 1600. It is a book clasp of Howsam Type A3.  The clasp has a flat hook at one end projecting from a transverse rectangular plate. The body is lozenge shaped and there is a sub-rectangular plate at the other end.  This plate has a single rivet hole in the centre with the iron rivet still in place, with iron corrosion surrounding it. No decoration is evident on either face of the item. Both faces have a brown-green patina. Length: 37.2 mm Width:  10.6 mm Thickn…
Created on: Wednesday 6th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 19th March 2024
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Record ID: GLO-744A62
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy book mount. The has been made from a pressed sheet that has a domed centre with hollowed-back, a pierced central circular hole (3mm in diameter) would have held a rivet which is now missing. The basal flange is in the form of an elaborate quatrefoil with each arm made from a semicircular projection that has a pointed tip.   For similar items see PUBLIC-C6950E, WILT-D104AB and BM-E8EF94 
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: BH-C78796
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post Medieval cast copper-alloy book clasp (AD 1400-1600). Howsam type A3. The book clasp consists of a rectangular plate with narrowed hook and a break at the opposite end. The surface is decorated with a central circular boss surrounded by a floral motif of a flower with four surviving petals containing trefoils. There is a small circular perforation next to one of the petals. The reverse of the plate is undecorated, with a circular recession corresponding with the boss.   The book clasp measures 29.1mm long, 22.6mm wide, 2.8mm maximum t…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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Record ID: DOR-DCB41B
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy sheet metal book clasp of Howsam type A.6.2. A catchplate originally paired with a hooked plate. A flared plate with a scalloped edge along the wider, distal end. At the attachment end are the two hooked arms, one on either side, which housed a bar for the attachment of the missing hook piece. The front of the plate is decorated at the hinged end with a series of incised lines of varying lengths extending longitudinally.. There are two attachment holes set longitudinally along the mid-line which retain separate circular cross-sectioned rivets which ha…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2024
Last updated: Saturday 6th April 2024
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Record ID: NARC-A2230A
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy book-clasp of Medieval date (AD 1350-1450). The object is composed of a solid cast loop, which has a plano-convex roundel with a central perforation 2.74mm in diameter, and a projecting zoomorphic terminal at its end. A drilled hole passes through the projecting terminal from side to side which has a diameter of 2.35mm. The loop extends into an integral forked spaces which is situated between two rectangular plates. The plates are fixed in place by a single perforating circular sectioned rivet at the open end of the object. the lower plate is partially missin…
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
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Record ID: GLO-A09FF5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily corroded copper alloy book clasp. This example is rectangular in plan with two copper alloy rivets retained at the rear. The forward edge has a narrowed tab that has been bent around to form a hook. The face is decorated with two concentric rings towards the rear.     Artefacts such as this have been discovered during excavation in York which dated to the 15th and 16th centuries (Ottaway & Rogers, 2002, 2937-2939)
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
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Record ID: GLO-A05828
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A heavily corroded copper alloy book clasp. This example is rectangular in plan with two semicircular notches on either side and three V-shaped notches running down the rear edge. The forward edge has a narrowed tab that has been bent around to form a hook. The face is decorated with six square stamps that that have an eight paralleled flowed within and a ring a dog at the rear.    Artefacts such as this have been discovered during excavation in York which dated to the 15th and 16th centuries (Ottaway & Rogers, 2002, 2937-2939)
Created on: Monday 12th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 12th February 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-642EC4
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy book clasp fitting of Medieval to Post-Medieval date, AD 1400-1650. Howsam type A.3. Little of the book clasp remains, all that remains is a sub-rectangular fragment of one end of the fitting plate. This plate has two straight edges and two irregular edges featuring covering worn breaks. Close to the long straight edge are two complete perforations, probably rivet holes. A third incomplete hole is present but broken due to worn breaks. The fragment does not appear to be decorated. The surface features a white-metal or silver coating. The fr…
Created on: Friday 9th February 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 20th February 2024
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Record ID: NARC-393CC8
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete probable Book Clasp or Buckle plate of late Medieval to Post-Medieval date (AD 1500-1650). As Howsam type A.6.2. The object is composed of two sheets of coper allow affixed by three perforated rivets at the terminal end. The terminal is trilobed and expands to a sub-rectangular attachment with a central sub-rectangular open portion in the centre of the frame. A partial attachment bar is retained between the inner open portion. The upper portion of the trilobed end is decorated around each of the rivets with three concentric circles. Length: 43.49mm, Width: 29.52mm, Thic…
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-354F59
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large gilded copper alloy hooked fitting, with a small terminal hook, a long tapering plate and a single small rivet hole at the rear (wide) end which retains a small copper alloy rivet. The front is decorated with an incised border of paired parallel lines. Probably a book clasp of post medieval date.
Created on: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 7th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-CC5EF1
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small post Medieval copper alloy book clasp (cf. Howsam type A.3 (hooked fishtail)). The object has a slightly flared terminal at the rear end, with a scalloped rear edge and a single rivet hole in the middle which retains a copper alloy rivet. The front of the clasp has moulded decoration with two transverse bands of pellets and lozenges towards the front and oblique panels of what may be fleur-de-lys flanking the rivet hole. A small and incomplete hook projects from the front edge. Circa 16th-17th century.
Created on: Friday 2nd February 2024
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-50C7F5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Abraded and incomplete medieval to post-medieval hooked and straight-sided book clasp of Howsam 2016 Type A.3.1. The fishtail terminal has been lost but the diverging sides indicate that it was once present. Near the jagged and non-recent break a rivet hole lies in the centre of a punched double concentric ring. In the central area a V-shaped punched impression of closely-spaced lines lies next to an iron rivet which secures a rectangular sheet spring on the reverse. Close by there is a single small notch on each side. Immediately before the hook a diagonal lattice withi…
Created on: Saturday 27th January 2024
Last updated: Saturday 27th January 2024
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Record ID: WAW-24DC0A
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, copper alloy book fitting of late Medieval to Post Medieval date (c. AD 1400-1700). The object is part of a three part hinged and hooked book fitting. The object is sub-triangular in plan and sub-rectangular in cross section. At the top of the plate, there are two attachment loops that are sub-rectangular in plan and sub-triangular to sub-rectangular in cross section and which appear to have been formed by bending the projections back upon themselves. Both of these retain parts of the now largely missing iron axis bar. In the centre of the object, there is a pierce…
Created on: Thursday 25th January 2024
Last updated: Friday 26th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-13AB08
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval copper alloy book fitting, a hooked clasp with sides which diverge gently from the hook before expanding to a fishtail terminal, Howsam 2016 Type A.3.1. Two small holes are aligned transversely between the terminal and a parallel row of three others. In the same area there are numerous, probably punched, longitudinal lines. Towards the centre a punched ring-and-dot has penetrated the metal at the dot. Nearer the hook a slightly larger hole, for a rivet, lies close to another set of longitudinal lines. Immediately before the hook there …
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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