Record ID: LANCUM-EA6B43
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy clasp 16th - 18th century AD. The clasp has a rectangular body of sheet metal with a small hooked tab at one end. There is a rivet hole in the centre near the tab end. The body is undecorated and could be a clog fastener although book-clasps bearing similar decorative motifs (punched ring and dot, the incised 'pheons') can be found illustrated in Crummy (1998, 68; e.g. ref. 2993). These examples are given a 17th-century date. Similar on the database to LIN-2DD746 and SUR-2093D4 The length is 26mm and the width 17mm.
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PENDLE HALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-EA86B5
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy clasp 16th - 18th century AD. The clasp has a rectangular body of sheet metal with a small hooked tab at one end. There is a rivet hole in the centre near the tab end. The body is undecorated and could be a clog fastener although book-clasps bearing similar decorative motifs (punched ring and dot, the incised 'pheons') can be found illustrated in Crummy (1998, 68; e.g. ref. 2993). These examples are given a 17th-century date. Similar on the database to LIN-2DD746 and SUR-2093D4 The length is 35mm and the width 17mm.
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 11th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PENDLE HALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-EB8525
Object type: CLASP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy clasp 16th - 18th century AD. The clasp has a rectangular body of sheet metal with a small hooked tab at one end. There is a rivet hole in the centre near the tab end. The body is undecorated and could be a clog fastener although book-clasps bearing similar decorative motifs (punched ring and dot, the incised 'pheons') can be found illustrated in Crummy (1998, 68; e.g. ref. 2993). These examples are given a 17th-century date. Similar on the database to LIN-2DD746 and SUR-2093D4 The length is 30mm and the width 16mm.
Created on: Tuesday 24th January 2012
Last updated: Monday 17th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PENDLE HALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-959B32
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of copper alloy strip of probably Mediavel date. The copper alloy has a brown patina and is curved. Broken at 26mm long, one end has a narrow projection which is broken at 2mm long from the edge of the rectangular main piece. The reverse is blank. The face has a series of symmetrical horizontal and wavy lines. This is probably a fragment of a bookclasp. Bracelet or buckle plate are also possibilities for function, but less likely.
Created on: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 1st February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alderton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-AF93F5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Post-Medieval (1500-1700) copper alloy book-clasp, consisting of the clasp or 'hook' end only. It measures 51.96x(max)12.91x3.66mm and weighs 2.9g. The sheet copper alloy is 0.82mm thick and parallel-sided (c.10.7mm), expanding at the end opposite to the hook. The book fitting is decorated with punched decoration and has a rivet hole (with in situ corroded iron rivet) at the expanded end. Around this rivet hole this is in the form of a ring of oval punches with triangles around. There is a pellet at the centre of each triangle. Towards the other end is a pair of grooves in …
Created on: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-AFB823
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Post-Medieval (1500-1700) copper alloy book-clasp, consisting of the clasp or 'hook' end only. It measures 46.44x17.14x2.71mm and weighs 3.1g. The sheet copper alloy is 0.71mm thick and slightly concave-sided (min.15.13mm). The max.width is at the expnaded end opposite to the hook. The hook end is 16.21mm wide. The book fitting is decorated with punched decoration (barely visible through wear) and has two rivet holes (with in situ corroded iron rivet) at the expanded end and before the hook end. Around the expanded-end rivet hole is a ring of oval punches with leaf or fla…
Created on: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Salisbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-DA7796
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Part of a Medieval copper-alloy book-clasp consisting of a cast hinged plate and a small portion of copper-alloy plate; Howsam type A.1.1. The plate is sub-oval in plan, domed at the front and flat at the rear. There is a circular hole at the centre of the dome, and at the terminal there is an incomplete loop broken through a transverse circular perforation. At the attachment end there are two integral projecting arms with a circular hole through each arm to take a separate copper-alloy hinge bar. A small part of the sheet plate survives, wrapped around the bar. The object is now c…
Created on: Thursday 5th April 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-FE3BF3
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded and incomplete hook-piece from a copper-alloy post-medieval book-clasp. It is formed of two sheet plates of copper alloy which have been held together by three rivets, two of iron and one of copper-alloy, though the two iron rivets have now corroded and caused the plates to separate slightly. This artefact is broadly sub-rectangular in shape, with a flared attachment end on the upper plate (12.8mm wide) which has been abraded, particularly to one corner of the upper sheet. The upper surface of this latter is decorated with finely incised longitudinal incisions, with additio…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2012
Last updated: Thursday 19th April 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Broughton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-BA2652
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A cast medieval copper-alloy book-clasp of Howsam type A.1.3. It is a slightly trapezoidal frame with an outside edge around which a strap fixed to one cover would have been secured. It then extends into a narrow plate with a circular hole which would have fitted over a peg fixed to the opposite cover. The plate is square in cross-section and then widens into a sub-circular shape with a central circular hole. This is at 90 degrees to the rest of the object (running side to side) and was probably used to hold a cord or chain to help in pulling the clasp off the peg; as the hole is bloc…
Created on: Thursday 10th May 2012
Last updated: Friday 28th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nacton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-0C62D2
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but bent sheet copper alloy hook-piece from a post-medieval book-clasp. It is flat in section and sub-rectangular in plan with a slightly flared end with scalloped edge. The opposing end terminates in a narrowed, curved hook (W: 6mm). The upper surface is decorated with two ring and dot motifs at the flared and, and the other half is decorated with longitudinal grooves. Two copper alloy rivets survive, one at each end. This type of book clasp is dated to the later 16th century to mid-18th century, c.1550-1750. Compare DENO-FBA075 and WILT-E96352.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2012
Last updated: Thursday 7th June 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Nottinghamshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-49AC24
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval copper alloy book-clasp dating 1550-1650. This book-clasp is roughly rectangular in shape with a flaring 'fish-tail' attachment end and a broad hook at the terminal end. The 'fish-tail' end is incomplete and one of the lobes is broken and missing. On the front surface, about mid-way along its length there is a ring-and-dot motif with 3 concentric rings. Between this motif and the 'fish-tail' there are two separate copper-alloy rivet holes, one still has the rivet in place and the head sits flush with the surface of the book-clasp; it is broken across th…
Created on: Monday 3rd September 2012
Last updated: Monday 3rd September 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8EC891
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy book clasp of Howsam type A.9.2, a characteristic 14th- or 15th-century design, of box-like construction. The part that contained the strap is rectangular with shaped end with a notch between two concavities, and pierced by a rivet-hole. The sides are chamfered between notches at upper and lower ends. The face is inscribed with an H reserved on a rectangular field of rocker arm. The plate is then butted against a box-like lozengiform element cast in the form of an elaborate quatrefoil in high relief forming a lozengiform boss. The lower faces of the lozenge lie b…
Created on: Tuesday 6th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SEDGEFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0BD8D3
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a medieval copper alloy book clasp: twin lugs at the attachment-end with drilled holes containing a separate copper alloy bar for the missing sheet plate, openwork oval plate occupied by a lion passant reguardant to sinister with its tail, curled between its legs and across its body, in its mouth. There is a small dot on the hindquarters of the lion. The central hole through the lions shoulder in the plate would have fitted over a pin set into the wooden book cover. A large stylised animal-head with a perforation through the snout forming the terminal loop, through which a cor…
Created on: Monday 12th November 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-717970
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Post-Medieval (1500-1700) copper alloy book-clasp, missing the tip of the clasp or 'hook' end. It measures 44.50x18.12x3.19mm and weighs 4.33g. The sheet copper alloy is 0.96mm thick and the plate parallel-sided (c.14.5mm), expanding at the end opposite the hook to 18.12mm. Just behind this is a corroded but still in situ (apparent on the reverse) iron rivet. The hook is 8.12mm wide. The book fitting is very worn and traces of cast decoration survive. Behind the hook end is a rectangular panel bordered by a pair of ribs (two of which have a line of pellets betwee…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2013
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'New Alresford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-FEE0E1
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A broken and damaged hook-piece from a copper-alloy post-medieval book-clasp. The artefact is now corroded, fragmentary, and bent, downwards at one corner. It is sub-rectangular in shape, with a flared attachment end; the other end is formed of the break but is fairly evenly lateral. The main body of the clasp is 21.8mm in width, flaring to a maximum of 28.1mm at the attachment end, this latter truncated slightly at the bent down corner; there is a small tear towards the other corner. At the flared end is a central rivet hole; the rivet is missing. There are further small perforati…
Created on: Sunday 12th May 2013
Last updated: Thursday 4th July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chilcomb CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-B69491
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Post-Medieval (1500-1700) copper alloy book-clasp. It measures 64.96mmx18.92mm and weighs 14.8g. The book fitting is sub rectangular in plan. The top hooked part measures 8.79mm in width then widens out to 18.92mm. Its main body tapers down 50.60mm before flaring out and forming a 'fishtail' shape measuring 33.79mm wide. On the upper surface there are a total of seven circular apertures, three contain copper alloy rivets. On the upper section of the clasp to the outer edge are a series of vertical lines of varying length. About mid way down the main body sectio…
Created on: Tuesday 21st May 2013
Last updated: Saturday 22nd June 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-203EB8
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval/ Early Post-Medieval (1200-1700) copper alloy possible book-clasp. It measures 25.86mmx14.03mm (to the break) and weighs 1.2g. The object is sub-rectangular in plan. The top hooked part measures 12.45mm in width then widens out to 14.07mm (to the break). On the upper surface the decoration that can be seen underneath the hook section is a horizontal line of strike marks flanked by a line of dots beneath. In the square section underneath that are a series of five diagonal parallel lines on either side creating a wide 'V 'shape. Again the same pattern of strike …
Created on: Sunday 26th May 2013
Last updated: Friday 9th August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-448976
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hook-piece from a copper-alloy post-medieval book-clasp. The artefact is now corroded and bent, upwards at one corner. It is sub-rectangular in shape, with a flared attachment end; the other end is squared off with a central trapezoidal curved hook. The main body of the clasp is 22.7mm in width, flaring to a maximum of 29.0mm at the attachment end. It features two small semicircular cutouts towards its centre, slightly unaligned. At the flared end is a central rivet hole; part of the iron rivet is corroded in place. Small triangular cutouts at this end give it a serrated quali…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd July 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd July 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chilcomb CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-5AF9E0
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy object, probably a book clasp, dating to the 11th century. The object consists of a sub-triangular relief-decorated openwork plate. The base has the projecting semi-circular remains of two originally circular loops, pierced from side to side, which may together have held a hinge bar. The other end (the apex of the triangle) has a zoomorphic decorated knop in the shape of an animal's head, with two pointed-oval eyes outlined by narrow ridges, a snout which is concave on top, open jaws also delineated by lines, and a rounded forehead. The open jaws hol…
Created on: Thursday 4th July 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 19th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Aldingbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-D7E8A4
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large hook-piece from a copper-alloy post-medieval book-clasp. It is sub-rectangular in shape, with a flared attachment end; the other end is squared off with a central rectangular curved hook. The main body of the clasp is 26.8mm in width, flaring to a maximum of 30.5mm at the attachment end. At the flared end is a single central rivet hole; the iron rivet is corroded in place, holding a square copper-alloy rove. The end itself is bevelled slightly. Floral decoration seems to have been stamped in the upper two thirds of the main field: a rose to the right of a second ste…
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2013
Last updated: Monday 19th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burlescombe CP', grid reference and parish protected.