Holdfasts and Staples

This category includes objects with two pointed ends that are bent.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
3140	(none)	1927,1003.100	(none)	Copper staple. With eye presumably for suspension [drawing 1:1]
3241	(none)	(none)	(none)	Bronze staple. Ends broken off. [drawing 1:1]
3303	(none)	1927,1003.99	(none)	Copper staple or rivet. With eye at top; use doubtless similar to that of a ring bolt. [drawing 1:1]
3305	(none)	1927,1003.113	(none)	Silver cup. Straight-sided cup of silver alloyed with copper and ornamented. Type sketch 1:1. in Cat. In text: kassite period(16) [drawing 1:1]
3344	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper staple. Somewhat blistered but strong. [drawing 1:1]
(none)	(none)	1927,0527.110	(none)	(none)
6639C	(none)	1927,0527.77	(none)	Group of silver staves with wooden core inside A-Y.
6639D	(none)	1927,0527.78	(none)	Group of silver staves with wooden core inside A-Y.
6643	(none)	(none)	(none)	Hasp. Bronze? Fragment. E.
6657A	(none)	1927,0527.116	(none)	Copper? Handles? Arched. Rounded tops and nail head bases. E. [drawing 1:2]
8460	(none)	1928,1009.335	(none)	Copper staple Shaped like a crotchy [croquet] hoop with end of legs slightly turned up.
8477B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 copper staples. Made from a single piece of copper bent to form an arch, ends overlap at bottom [drawing] c. 1:1
8477C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 copper staples. Made from a single piece of copper bent to form an arch, ends overlap at bottom [drawing] c. 1:1
8477D	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 copper staples. Made from a single piece of copper bent to form an arch, ends overlap at bottom [drawing] c. 1:1
9574A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Hasps (?) [A-B] Found in the matting above the body and possibly used to fasten the ends of the mats together [drawing] 1:1 (NB the real metal is much thinner than is here drawn)
9655A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Copper Holdfasts. 2, found together. [drawing 1:1]
9846A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Copper Holdfasts (4) Hoop-shaped. Possibly fasteners for adjusting a belt by means of a toggle. cf. Field Notes. Only one in good condition. One badly broken. [drawing 1:1]
9847A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] Copper Holdfasts (4) Possibly fasteners for adjusting a belt. Found in connection with the copper holdfasts 9846, the latter being on the waist, these being on the shoulder. Possibly they belong to a leather baldrick. Horseshoe shaped head, rounded in section, legs rectangular in section. The legs may originally have been pliable so as to allow of the insertion of cord or such like material within the ring. [drawing 1:1]
9859A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 Copper holdfasts. Possibly for adjusting a belt. Cf. U.9847 similar in type. Splayed ends broken in every case. None complete.
9859B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 Copper holdfasts. Possibly for adjusting a belt. Cf. U.9847 similar in type. Splayed ends broken in every case. None complete.
9859C	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 Copper holdfasts. Possibly for adjusting a belt. Cf. U.9847 similar in type. Splayed ends broken in every case. None complete.
9859D	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-D] 4 Copper holdfasts. Possibly for adjusting a belt. Cf. U.9847 similar in type. Splayed ends broken in every case. None complete.
9915B	(none)	1928,1010.345	(none)	Copper Bolt. [A-F] A set of 6 found together: 2 have solid flat heads and are bent 4 have coiled heads Type VII [drawings] 1:1
9916B	(none)	1928,1010.344	(none)	[A-B] Copper Nails 2, round in section and flattened towards the tip, which is bent over as in the case of the clay nails Type VII
12109	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper Cramp. Body of cramp shaped like a V with hoop shaped top and at right angles to it and welded onto it a second hoop. [drawing not to scale]