Record ID: HAMP-0A7702
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A largely complete hook-piece from a copper-alloy post-medieval book-clasp. The artefact is now corroded and bent, having received a heavy strike to its lower surface in the past. It is sub-rectangular in shape, with a flared attachment end. At the opposite end is a curved hook (10.2mm wide). Below this the main body of the clasp is 22.1mm in width, narrowing to 20.1mm after 21.3mm, finally flaring to a maximum of 30.2mm at the attachment end. At the attachment end the are four small triangular removals which help define its shape. Part of one of the terminal lobes (the left) is missi…
Created on: Thursday 26th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Linkenholt CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-127F66
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy terminal from a medieval hinged book-clasp. It measures 38.49mm in length and 19.10mm in width. It is roughly D-shaped or sub-rectangular, and the attachment end has two projecting lugs. Corroded iron remains can be seen around these, and originally an iron hinge bar would have passed through the lugs and the folded end of the sheet plate of the book-clasp, holding the two components together. The terminal has notched edges and five circular holes through it, one roughly in each corner and one in the centre. The front has short decorative grooves between thes…
Created on: Monday 2nd April 2007
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Melton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-62EB87
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The bent hook-piece from a copper-alloy post-medieval book-clasp. The artefact has been bent twice: at the hooked end (diagonally) and at the flared attachment end. This front-plate has decoration on its upper surface; it is uncertain whether the sheet plate has survived within the folded front-plate. There is a large central punched ring-and-dot motif. As the body begins to widen, there are three recessed perforations, below which are 'feathered' motifs, four in total, with diverging side lines, a central line and diagonals between the two. This is a seemingly common c. 17th-century…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BUC-07E1F4
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An ornate copper alloy book clasp, now bent in half. The long edges are slightly bevelled. The mount has a rectangular terminal at the hooked end, with a central rectangular hook bent round to the reverse. This would have fitted into a catch on another clasp. There are two incised lines across this rectangular terminal with a group of closely spaced lines at right angles to them, arranged in a chevron at the inner end around a circular rivet. The other end is trilobate, with two leaf-shaped lobes and a central, more rounded lobe. These lobes have linear decoration and a central rib…
Created on: Sunday 19th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-FCCA91
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The hook-piece from a copper-alloy post-medieval book-clasp. The artefact is sub-rectangular in shape, having a flared attachment end. It consists of a decorated front-plate and a smaller, plain back-plate. The two sheet elements are rivetted together by a trio of rivets; one towards the top of the back-plate (hook end of the front-plate) and a pair at the attachment end where the clasp flares. The rivets are well finished on the upper surface of the front-plate are are thus difficult to discern; the two at the flared end, which would have also held a leather strap, slightly less s…
Created on: Tuesday 19th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: WILT-7E3806
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possibly 11th century or post medieval (pre-1700) copper alloy book-clasp, measuring 51.7mm in length, 30mm in width and max.5.4mm in thickness. It weighs 33.45g. It is similar to the 11th century openwork Winchester style strap-ends, with Carolingian influences, and depicts two birds either side of a central tree/ stem with flowering bud at either end, their beaks open around the rounded but slightly pointed terminal. The strap-end has a slot (18.4x2.7mm) for attachment and not the more usual split or stepped end. Either side of this is a flat roundel with a punched cross, the …
Created on: Wednesday 13th September 2006
Last updated: Friday 21st December 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-6C7993
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy book clasp of late medieval date, perhaps 14th or 15th century. It is elaborate in style and rectangular in shape, formed from two overlapping rectangular sheets, and measures in total 41.22mm in length and 33.18mm in width. Each of the long edges of the clasp have two trefoil holes cut out of them, which alternate with three copper-alloy rivets with large flat round heads, one at either end and one central one. All but one of these six rivets survive, and traces of gilding can be seen on them. There is also a fragment of canvas-like textile between one riv…
Created on: Thursday 31st August 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Metfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B53A32
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval book-clasp, large (>40 x 29mm) worn and corroded, hooked end missing, transverse break across elaborate stamped rose with domed boss, at least five pelleted lozengiform stamps and six trefoil-like (possibly fleur-de-lis or acorn) stamps. rolled sheet rivet (length 8mm) flanked by two ring-and-dot with perforated centres in slightly expanded end with five notches. Probably 17th century. Cf. smaller examples in Margeson (1993) nos.452-4.
Created on: Friday 5th May 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 12th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C27A01
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tinned copper-alloy object of box-like construction, now interpreted as a book-clasp. The part containing the strap is square-ended and damaged and is pierced by two copper-alloy rivets used to secure the strap. The plate of the mount is inscribed with an M (perhaps for the Virgin Mary) on a hatched field. The plate is then enlarged into a very box-like lozengiform element with a cross paty inscribed on the top. The lozenge terminates in a flat-sectioned projection folded back onto itself and forming a trapezoidal terminal pierced by a transverse hole, through which a ring (ends butte…
Created on: Monday 6th March 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8B7317
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval Hooked book-clasp with fish-tail terminal and remains of two iron rivets, one attached to remains of iron sheet. Decoration consists of engraved lines, longitudinal, transverse and oblique. Length 44mm, maximum width 13mm. 16th century.
Created on: Friday 21st October 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenninghall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-8B0211
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy book-clasp: cast flat-backed loop with central hole and hinged sheet plate with two attachment holes. The front part of the attachment edge is missing, the rear part is almost straight. Cf. Medieval Household nos.919-25. The form of the terminal is closest to no.925. Also similar to another example recently found in Kenninghall (HER 32006). Length 30mm, maximum width 8mm, diameter of transverse loop hole 2mm. Late 14th - 15th century.
Created on: Friday 21st October 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kenninghall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D19CE3
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval or early post-medieval catchpiece for a book-clasp, cut sub-rectangular sheet, stepped end has two projecting strips curled to form loops containing separate bar for securing clasp. Plate decorated with longitudinal lines of varying lengths in double-cusped arrangement pierced by small rivet-hole, triple-notched end with twin perforated ring-and-dots, one corner broken, 44 x (reconstructed) 30mm. 15th or 16th century. Cf. Margeson (1993), 74-5, plate 13.
Created on: Friday 30th September 2005
Last updated: Friday 18th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Beeston with Bittering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-B89C91
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Published
Later Medieval/ Post Medieval copper-alloy hooked book-clasp, probably dating from the 16th to 17th centuries. The clasp is flat and basically lozenge-shaped, with an expanded rectangular lobe to either end beyond which one end has a serrated flared terminal and the other a hook. The clasp is decorated with engraved zig zags (often known as rocker-arm or wriggle-work), and was attached by a single iron rivet in the middle of the end of the expanded terminal.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2005
Last updated: Friday 11th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brooks Wharf', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-5C4555
Object type: BOX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Ornamental catch or hasp from a small box or casket, consisting of two hinged parts, one much larger than the other. Both are symmetrical in the long axis. The shorter part is sharply indented in outline, and has a sharp-pointed trefoil terminal and a single rivet hole on the median axis. The longer part has deep near-circular indentations midway along each side of its length, with horn-like edges, but widens again towards its terminal in a sub-circular lobe with a single central knop extending beyond this outline: this, it may be supposed, was to engage with some small notched or for…
Created on: Tuesday 7th December 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DE0313
Object type: MOUNT
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Mount with foliate decoration, broken at one end but possibly part of an ornamental box or cupboard hinge or book-clasp. The metal is solidly-cast to a thickness of 2mm and the foliate decoration is raised in cast relief on the surface. The back is flat and smooth. The symmetrical outline expands from 10mm at the base to 17mm at a shoulder (at a height of 17mm)and then waists abruptly to 9mm before bursting into a fleur-de-lys type of trtefoil at the top, which is 21.5mm wide. In the middle of the fleur's central leaflet is a substantial rivet-hole (clogged), and where the mount is bro…
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nettlestead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: IOW-108BF1
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Complete cast copper alloy gilded book-clasp of Medieval date, probably the second half of the fourteenth century. Length 44.5mm, width 12.5mm and 7mm thick. Weight 8.65g. The attachment end is hollow and almost rectangular (17mm in length, 12.5mm wide and 3.6mm thick) although the sides flare gently outwards towards the end and the edges are at right angles to the faces. The front face of the attachment end has an engraved border, inside of which is an engraved stylised human mask with a severe expression. The mouth is slightly down-turned and its right eye appears closed. At the e…
Created on: Thursday 28th October 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brading Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-00C145
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of an early post-medieval copper-alloy book-clasp. The fragment is thin, flat and approximately rectangular with slightly flared edges at one end. At this end, there are two rows of circular perforations; one of two perforations, the other of three. The clasp is also decorated here with a series of diagonal and vertical grooves. The underside is undecorated. The clasp has a brownish patina, characteristic of later medieval and post-medieval finds. It measures 47mm in length and has a maximum width of 23mm. These clasps were attached to a strap which held the two covers of the…
Created on: Tuesday 21st September 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-A64B56
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy book-clasp. The attachment end is rectangular, 33 mm long and 28 mm wide. The front and sides of the attachment end are cast in one piece and there is a thin sheet backplate, now incomplete, soldered on. The front has two small circular rivet holes, one in each outer corner; one of these retains a copper-alloy rivet. It is decorated with a panel of fine cross-hatching surrounded by an engraved line. On the panel, and crossing over at the bottom into the undecorated border, are three reserved black-letter initials. They read xpc (in lower case) with an abbreviation mark ove…
Created on: Friday 30th July 2004
Last updated: Monday 19th June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Firle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-E90386
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Flat rectangular book-clasp. Hook piece. It is of sheet metal with a flared, scalloped edge at one end. The other end has a narrowed hook. There are three attachment holes set longitudinally. The upper (hook end) and lower (scalloped end) ones retain iron rivets. The front is decorated with stamps of an acorn design (one between the lower and central rivet hole and three between the central rivet hole and the one nearest the hook end). The back is undecorated. The plate is bent forward slightly at the scalloped end.
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cerne Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-E8C3B4
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy book clasp. It is an incomplete, flat rectangular book-clasp of sheet metal with a scalloped edge at one end. The other end is missing so it is not possible to tell if this is a hook or catch piece. There is a single attachment hole retaining part of an iron rivet at the scalloped end. The surfaces are too corroded to see any decoration
Created on: Thursday 15th April 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cerne Abbas', grid reference and parish protected.