Record ID: NLM-061164
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Green copper alloy book clasp. Small decorated, Howsam type A3. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1650 Length: 29.7mm, Width: 12.9mm, Thickness: 1.8mm, Weight: 1.94gms
Created on: Tuesday 13th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 13th September 2022
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Record ID: OXON-B2030E
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval to Post Medieval book fitting dating to circa AD 1500-1700. It is sub-rectangular in plan with a hook at one end and decorative fishtail at the other. The outer corners of the fishtail have curved in on themselves. The outerface has incised decoration, initially consisting of an incised line from the centre of the fishtail. Leading from this incised line is an impressed circular motif consisting of a circle cut in quarters, pierced by a hole in each quarter, with an incised dot at the centre. This is located 5mm down from the end of…
Created on: Friday 9th September 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 20th September 2022
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Record ID: OXON-6149B2
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Medieval book clasp of the pierced and hinged type (Howsam type A.1.1) dating to c. AD 1350-1450. The object is part of a two-piece book clasp with hinged plate and loop. The plate has been lost, though the separate copper-alloy hinge bar remains. The object has a domed central circular section, pierced with a large circular central hole (4.8mm diameter). This is decorated by irregular lines of incised circles surrounding circular pellets. The reverse is flat and plain. Two arms project from one end holding a circular cross-sectioned…
Created on: Monday 5th September 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 7th September 2022
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Record ID: NLM-212945
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy, green, trace patterns with remains of gilding. With incised letters, repeated SN, remains of gilding. Howsam Type A3. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1700 Length: 58.6mm, Width: 18.9mm, Thickness: 1.1mm, Weight: 7.59gms
Created on: Friday 2nd September 2022
Last updated: Friday 2nd September 2022
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Record ID: OXON-3D611B
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early Post-Medieval (c. 1400 - c. 1700) copper alloy book-clasp: The body of the book clasp is a long, slender rectangle. At one termina there is an off-set rectangular protrusion, whose edge is curled downwards forming the clasp element. The opposite terminal has a rivet hole with a fragment of a rivet remaining. The clasp is decorated with a row of three low-relief annulet and pellet motifs. The surface of the clasp has a mottled matte red-brown surface with traces of a dark green patina. The clasp measures 53.49mm long, 14.09mm wide and weighs 3.22g. Numerous similar clasps…
Created on: Monday 22nd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 22nd August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-B83267
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval to early post-medieval copper-alloy hook-piece from a book clasp of Howsam’s (2016) type A.3. It consists of two long and narrow plates riveted together. The front plate is longer, slightly wider, with parallel sides for the most part but flared at one end. The flared end has a V-shaped notch in the centre. At the other end there is a central rearward curving hook. The rear plate is rectangular and incomplete: broken across two rivet holes arranged transversally at one end (the flared end of the upper plate). The rivets remain in-situ in the front plate. A third riv…
Created on: Tuesday 16th August 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 16th August 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-A43705
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, copper alloy book clasp, probably of Howsam type A2, dating from the Medieval period, about AD 1300 - 1450. It has a D shaped body, flat on the underside and domed on the upper face, with a central, circular perforation. At the straight end of the body is a narrow  groove and then a solid bar, which probably once extended into an integral forked spacer. At the opposite end of the body is an integral, projecting, flat loop at right angles to the plane of the body. This loop, part of which has broken away, is pierced with a circ…
Created on: Monday 15th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-A42934
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy book clasp of Medieval date, about AD 1100 - 1250. It is of Howsam type A.1.1, having a D shaped plate, pierced with a central, circular perforation. At each end of the straight edge is a projecting tab pierced to accept a circular, copper alloy bar. The remains of a copper alloy sheet plate is folded round the bar. The underside of the rounded main body of the clasp is flat, while the upper face is slightly domed and moulded in the form of a saltire created by four shallow grooves radiating from the central perforation. The whole of …
Created on: Monday 15th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-A4032E
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy book clasp of Howsam type A.1.3, dating from the Medieval period, about AD 1100 - 1450, probably AD 1100 - 1250. It has a flat, sub-triangular body with a central, circular perforation. At one end of the body is an integral, rectangular loop and at the other is an integral flat loop at right angles to the plane of the body. This loop is pierced by a circular hole from side to side, and has zoomorphic moulding. The underside of the fitting is plain and the front face has a moulded zoomorphic design. There are two deep angled grooves leading to the projecting peg loop…
Created on: Monday 15th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
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Record ID: DEV-36E165
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy hinged fitting of post-medieval date: probably a book clasp (c. 18th century). The object is comprised of two plates of comparable length, both broadly trapezoidal, with a slight curve, one with bowed sides. This latter has a plain outer surface and may thus be considered the lower plate. It is attached to the upper plate by a long, central tubular loop, which travels round an axis bar retained on the upper plate by two lateral tubes. The upper plate is perforated centrally at the other end, presumably to connect to the lower plate through a pin or stud, now missing. The…
Created on: Wednesday 10th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 10th August 2022
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Record ID: BUC-22D6DD
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, copper alloy, Medieval, book fitting, AD.1300-1500. The object comprises a square plate, decorated on the front face only. There are four rivet holes in the corners of the plate, one has been lost through old damage to the plate's corner. Running down one edge is a border strip with a repeating zig-zag design, this is offset from teh edge of the metal by a plain border approx 2.5mm wide. The rest of the plate has a plain square border c.3mm wide in the middle of this is a decorated section. The decoration takes the form of a sinuous S with pointed D shaped termi…
Created on: Tuesday 9th August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 17th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3BBEB6
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy book clasp, worn, corroded, and slightly bent, with blunt hooked end and splayed notched terminal. Traces of decoration comprise a multiple longitudinal lines at the hooked end and the attachment end. Three rivet-holes, one near the mid-point with remains of iron rivet, another within an engraved ring-and-dot towards attachment end (also containing remains of iron rivet), and another within ring-and-dot at the splayed attachment-end (rivet missing). Length 40.5mm. Width 11.5mm. Weighs 1.64g. Later 16th-17th century.
Created on: Friday 29th July 2022
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2022
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Record ID: LIN-9223A3
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy late medieval to post-medieval book clasp of Howsam type A.3 dating to the 15th and 16th centuries AD. It is made from a thin strip of sub-rectangular copper-alloy sheet, with one end hooked and the other terminating with an old break. The sub-rectangular hook is broken, and protrudes from rounded shoulders. The fitting is decorated on one side with a delicate foliate motif of a pair of curvilinear stems surrounded by a slightly raised sub-rectangular frame that is rectilinear at one end and concave the other. Below th…
Created on: Thursday 21st July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 9th August 2022
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Record ID: SWYOR-ADC265
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy, probably incomplete, probable book clasp dating from AD 1400 - 1600. It is a rectangular plate, possibly broken at one end, with a broken projecting tab at the other end which is probably the remains of a wide blunt hook. The front is decorated with a cluster of three concentric rings around a central recessed dot. Two circular rivet holes interrupt this design and may be a later addition, after the rest of the fitting broken away. The long edges appear to be original. On the plain reverse, are longitudinal shallow ripples - perhaps resulting from the method of man…
Created on: Sunday 10th July 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 19th July 2022
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Record ID: DYFED-588FC5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Object is an incomplete, copper alloy, possible book fitting, it is rectangular in shape topped with a crown on the obverse, and a rope like border around the edges of the rectangle, on the flat part of the rectangle is a rounded double ended cross like indentation of unknown function, possibly decoration?, the reverse is plain and undecorated. On either side of the length of the object is a small circular shaped hole that does not perforate all the way through. This may possible be to fix the object to something else or a type of hinge. The object has a mostly reddish brown patin…
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2022
Last updated: Thursday 1st September 2022
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Record ID: NMS-18C28B
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete, worn and corroded post-medieval sheet copper alloy hooked book clasp with stamped decoration, broken across rivet hole, probable expanded terminal missing. From the blunt hooked end the unusual decoration comprises between pelleted borders a transverse band containing a pellets and foliate decoration (and pierced by a rivet hole with remains of corroded iron rivet); one and two halves of triangular rays containing foliate decoration. Some iron staining on reverse. Width 15mm. Extant length 36mm. Weighs 3.86g. Later 16th-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 21st June 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-72E306
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 1450 - 1600. The fitting is sub-rectangular in plan and rectangular in section. One end is sub-rectangular with uneven scalloped edges and a recessed circular hole in each corner. The main body of the fitting is sub-rectangular, tapering slightly at the shorter edges. The main body is decorated with a zig-zag line at each edge and a ring and dot pattern along the centre, the opposing edge terminates in an old break. Length: 43.9 mm Width: 15.5 mm Thickness: 1.3 mm Weight: 6.5 g
Created on: Monday 13th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 31st August 2022
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Record ID: WAW-1078D2
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy fitting, potentially a book fitting of Medieval to post Medieval date (AD 1300-1700). The object consists of what may be an anchor plate and a catch plate. The anchor plate consists of a plate that begins with an irregular pentagonal section with a curved irregular pentagonal aperture. This then proceeds to a lis shaped section with a pointed end. There are what appear to be the remnants of two rivets through the centre of the anchor plate. The other plate consists of a section that is shaped like an irregular pentagon with two circular knops on the …
Created on: Wednesday 8th June 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-77BC4B
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy book fitting of Howsam's (2016) type A.4.2. It formed of two flat, broadly rectagular sheet plates held together by two rivets, one of which has a projecting peforated head The front plate is longer and has a narrowed projection at one end, which begins to curve rearward to form an incomplete hook, terminating in a worn break shortly after. At the opposite end the edge is not straight but zig-zagged; there is a small V-shaped cutaway in the middle and a larger one on each side. A small fragment of one corner at this end is missing to an old break. The r…
Created on: Wednesday 1st June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 16th June 2022
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Record ID: LEIC-60B24D
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: 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. Howsham type A.3. It is sub-rectangular and formed of one sheet copper alloy, it has retained traces of organic material. The plate has a flared and scalloped open end. At the opposing end is a blunt, backward curved hook extends from the centreat the closed end. It is decorated in the centre with an annulet and three concentric rings. At the scalloped edge are two cylindrical rivets, there is one at the opposing end. Length: 47.9 mm Width: 19 mm Weight: 2.6 g See htt…
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 31st May 2022
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