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Record ID: NMS-EFEE71
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small flat silver book-clasp of post-medieval date. It is neatly made from thick silver sheet, rounded at both ends and with a concave waist in between. A flat turned-under hook has been broken at one end, which has shoulders curving down into the waist. There is a tiny pointed angle between the waist and the other rounded end, which is oval, slightly larger, and set transversely. This end has a hole, neatly lozengiform on the front and circular on the reverse, presumably for attachment to a strap. The hole is now filled with greenish corrosion on …
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-188BC9
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy book clasp of Howsam's type A.3, made from a thin strip of copper-alloy sheet mostly 14.2mm wide, with one end flaring to 15.4mm wide before being broken. The break is across the outer of two concentric grooves around a rivet hole (blocked with iron corrosion), with a second similar motif around a second rivet hole in the centre of the clasp. The other end of the clasp has a flat, slightly tapering, turned-under hook. It has further decoration of three transverse rows of fine rocker-arm ornament between the central circles and the hook, with a V shape of…
Created on: Friday 13th January 2023
Last updated: Friday 25th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-9DAFF0
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Book clasp of Howsam's type A.3, probably 15th or 16th century, now slightly bent. It is made from two sheets of copper alloy, a front sheet with flared end and hook, and a shorter rectangular backplate, joined by a copper-alloy rivet. The front plate is mainly 9.1m wide, the flared end broken across a rivet hole which is surrounded by a groove. There is decoration of neat transverse grooves, perhaps in pairs, now hard to see; other decoration may now have vanished. The hook is 3.6mm wide. Length 44.0mm, maximum width 10.7mm, thickness of front plate 0.7mm, weight 2.4g.
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-91735C
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small book clasp of Howsam type A.8.1. It is made from a single piece of undecorated copper-alloy sheet folded in half. The open end is 13.6mm wide, and it then tapers to 12.4mm wide before the corners at the fold are trimmed to form a rectangular projection. This has a wide gap at the fold taking the thickness to 4mm and providing the side-to-side perforation common to type A book clasps. The attachment end is secured by a single rather clumsy copper-alloy rivet, and between this and the fold is a central circular perforation 2.8mm in diameter. The total length is 21.3mm and it weig…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 16th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9AA487
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny copper-alloy book clasp of Howsam type A.1.3. The cast pierced element survives, together with a separate copper-alloy hinge bar. The pierced element is D-shaped, thick but flat with a small central circular perforation 2.5mm in diameter. There is a slight thickening along the straight edge, and at either corner there is a rearwards projection; one is broken off (worn break) and one survives complete. It is perforated from side to side and the hole retains a fragment of slim hinge bar, now broken and bent.
At the other end of the book clasp is a central projection, originall…
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Monday 17th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-72E1E5
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very worn fragment of flat book clasp of Howsam's type A.3, late medieval or early post-medieval. It was originally rectangular, with two largely broken ends and two worn but original sides. One end has a small projection at the corner which is all that survives of a flared attachment end. The other broken end is torn and cracked. The clasp is decorated on one face with double-strand curves and circles. Two double- or triple-strand circles occupy the attachment end, and have dots in the centre which have broken through the metal. Between these is a slightly larger rivet hole. In th…
Created on: Tuesday 21st January 2020
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-044FE0
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper-alloy book-clasp of Howsam type A.3, of late medieval or early post-medieval date. It retains a large part of the front plate and a fragment of backplate.
The front plate has an incomplete hook 6mm wide; behind this it steps out to a square panel 15mm wide, decorated with widely cross-hatched grooves forming a series of lozenges set between two pairs of transverse engraved lines. The main body of the book clasp is rectangular, 12.5mm wide. Short longitudinal grooves extend from the rearmost transverse line, and then the rest of this part of the book clasp is decorate…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-888945
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy book clasp of Howsam's type A.1.3. The plate is 18mm square at most, and has a raised border around a lower, thinner centre, sunken on one side, which has worn away completely in places. The border has traces of beading and the plate has a flat reverse. In the centre is a circular hole, 3mm in diameter, which would have fitted around a peg on the opposite cover of the book. The plate tapers very slightly to 16mm wide at one end, which has a projecting terminal. This is pierced from side to side and is a simple oval in shape, looking very like a suspension loop. It would p…
Created on: Friday 10th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E8F505
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy book mount of late medieval or early post-medieval date. It is now rather crumpled but was originally c. 30mm square, with a shallow incurve cut out of the centre of each edge.
Each corner has a small rivet hole around which are two or three concentric engraved rings. In the centre there is a circular boss with a large (7mm diameter) circular hole in the centre; the edges of the hole are worn and appear complete, but as most parallels have unbroken domes in the centre it is possible that the hole is due to wear. Around the hole is a ring of crescentic stamps, the point…
Created on: Wednesday 27th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-7EAC08
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Rectangular mount or book clasp made from copper alloy. It is large (40 x 25mm) and well made, with a separate copper-alloy rivet in each corner. There is a central circular perforation 6.5mm in diameter, and each short end is decoratively shaped into a deep central trefoil with an incurve on the remaining edge to either side. A short shallow groove runs from the centre of the trefoil towards the central perforation. The long edges are decorated with a pair of short grooves running from the edge towards the rivets at either corner. It weighs 7.21g.
The rivets are short (surviving l…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Monday 23rd December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-7E508D
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy book-clasp of Howsam's type A.1, complete with plate and cast element that would have fitted over a peg. The clasp is now bent upwards about the hinge.
The plate is made from a piece of copper-alloy sheet folded in half and secured by two copper-alloy rivets at the attachment end, both of which survive. The attachment end is incurved on both halves of the plate but is undecorated. Each corner of the folded end is cut into a recess so that the narrowed fold can fit between two projections from the cast element. These are both pierced to take a copper-alloy hinge b…
Created on: Friday 22nd November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-426966
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable fragment of book clasp. A pentagonal piece of thin copper-alloy sheet, it has two short parallel sides leading from a longer broken edge to a right-angled point. An engraved ring in the point has a copper-alloy rivet surviving in a hole through the centre. The broken edge is broken across three similar rings or circles, each with a hole in the centre, forming ring-and-dot ornament; the holes in these rings do not appear to be functional. The reverse is undecorated and the break is quite fresh.
The length (from broken edge to tip of point) is 16.5mm, and the width is 16mm. …
Created on: Thursday 7th November 2019
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2019
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Record ID: CAM-FA0654
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hook-piece from a small flat rectangular book-clasp, made from a brownish copper alloy. The hook is narrow and springs from a slightly expanded square area decorated with some very faint longitudinal grooves. These fade out further down the object where there is a small copper-alloy rivet. The grooves then return and there are two further rivet holes, both now empty, before the clasp flares slightly into a shaped end, one corner of which is now missing. The object is now slightly bent but the original length was 51 mm; it is 8 mm wide for most of its length, but slightly wider at b…
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF8849
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hook-piece from a small rectangular book clasp made from copper-alloy sheet. One end is flared and shaped, and is now incomplete. The other end is narrowed and bent into a hook. There is stamped decoration near the hook, consisting of two transverse lines at a skewed angle and then a lozenge filled with ornament. In the centre of the lozenge is an iron rivet, with a second iron rivet at the flared end. The flared end may also have been decorated, but the corrosion makes it hard to tell. The clasp has a rough brown patina with the metal colour showing through in places.
Created on: Monday 1st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'ROYDON', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8649
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy book clasp of the type with hinged perforated end. The plate is now quite corroded, and has frame recesses and two rivet holes. A single copper-alloy rivet survives in one of the holes. The plate is 10 mm wide. The hinged end is made from a different metal, darker and less corroded; perhaps cast rather than hammered. It has two projecting ends holding a bar on which the plate and end are hinged. Beyond this it has rounded edges, a convex top and a flat reverse, and is 12 mm wide. In the centre is a circular hole, 3.5 mm in diameter. Opposite the plate is a stylised animal…
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 8th January 2019
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This findspot is known as 'WIX', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8478
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very corroded copper-alloy mount, perhaps from a book. Rectangular, the surviving dimensions are 41 x 33 mm but parts of the short sides (top and bottom) are probably missing. It has openwork decoration of a bird or mythical beast, with a long body running diagonally across the mount and ending in a curving tail, a single wing above, a head looking back towards the wing, and perhaps two or perhaps four legs. Around the animal is a frame, which the wing and head touch. There is a solid section between the lower body and the frame which has a circular rivet hole. The possible two fo…
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8391
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Sub-triangular copper-alloy plate, now very corroded but surviving to 37.5 mm long, 21 mm wide and a maximum of 5.5 mm thick. The wider end has a projection at each corner which continues the line of the sides. The sides are decoratively shaped with a slightly curved lobe, a moulding, a more strongly curved lobe and then a rounded and knopped terminal. On the upper surface the object is decorated with scrolly relief ornament, the details of which are now hard to see. There is a central 3.5 mm diameter circular hole, and also a 3 mm diameter hole in the terminal. The object is in g…
Created on: Monday 8th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'NACTON', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF8336
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Well-preserved book clasp. The upper plate is made from a single sheet of copper alloy with the narrower end turned over into a hook. Next to the hook are two rectangular projections, and then the clasp flares gently for about three-quarters of its length. The final quarter has a steeper concave curve out to an attachment end cut into decorative outcurving scallops, and here one corner is missing. The upper plate is corroded to a powdery pale green over a rough reddish interior, but much of the decoration can still be seen. There is a line of zig-zag engraving between the two rect…
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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This findspot is known as 'ISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7564
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Domed circular mount, probably from a book. It is 17 mm in diameter and not completely regular; there is a central squarish perforation with rounded corners. Although it is very corroded (a pale green matt surface is mostly broken away to reveal a rough brown interior), decoration survives on the convex face consisting of six grooves radiating from the perforation. A little gilding survives in the grooves.
This type of domed mount was often used on books to protect the covers from rubbing on a flat surface. It falls into Howsam's type B.2.2. These appear to date from the 14th to 16…
Created on: Monday 10th December 2001
Last updated: Monday 28th January 2019
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This findspot is known as 'WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: SF7492
Object type: BOOK FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy book clasp, of 'hinged' type, with unusual features that probably mean it is unfinished. At one end is an 8 mm wide and 2 mm thick flat rectangular area which represents the attachment plate. This is usually a separate hinged plate, but on small examples can be integral and fixed. This area, however, has no split or step to take the strap, and no rivet hole to fix it to the strap. The short edge is unevenly slanted (possibly a worn break). The upper 8 mm has some oblique grooves and some possible hammer marks. Below this is a 6 mm long area which is more neatly fini…
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 9th January 2019
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This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.
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