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Description: | A fragment of one half of an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy wrist clasp. As it is a fragment (old break) it is not possible to be sure whether it is the hook-piece or the catch-piece of the clasp. One end survives, showing it to be basically rectangular; its surviving measurements are 18mm in length and 19mm in width. The front of the clasp is decorated with three rectangular grooves, one inside the other, which retain traces of gilding. The rear edge is made up of projecting triangles with a bar joining the apexes of the last two in the row. This bar would originally have joined all of the triangles, and thus formed sewing holes. The reverse face is undecorated. This clasp is of Hines's Form B18, dated to the late 5th or 6th century(Hines 1993, 60-61). | Subjects: | Hines's Form B18 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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