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Description: | Hook-piece from a copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B12, 35mm in length and 20mm in width. The hook-piece is made of a bar alone, rectangular in shape with triangular terminals. There is decoration on its upper face consisting of a central square panel outlined with a double ridge, with a four-armed curving motif (almost a swastika) within it. Either side of this square decorative panel are two pairs of transverse grooves, and then the triangular terminals which are flat and undecorated. This wrist-clasp was sewn to the garment by the means of three evenly spaced lugs, with central circular perforations, which project from the rear edge. One projects from each of the two triangular terminals, and the third from the centre of the decorative panel. Projecting from the front edge of the square decorative panel is the hook, which has been cast in one piece with the bar. It is complete, curves backwards and has an almost triangular terminal. The reverse is flat and undecorated. This wrist-clasp is late 5th or 6th century in date (Hines 1993, 46-47, Fig 90). | Subjects: | Hines's Form B12 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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