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Description: | A complete copper-alloy catch piece from an early Anglo-Saxon wrist or sleeve clasp of Hines Form B18e (Hines 1993, 60-61, fig 116). It measures 35mm in length and 16mm in width. Hines explains that form 18 clasps essentially consist of a bar with a row of cojoined knobs along the rear edge, they are relatively elaborate and many examples, are gilt, although no gilding can be seen on this example traces of a white metal coating can.
This example is form B18e as its bar has a prominent central rectangular area containing a simple ladder motif of relief decoration, with two plain wings at either end. This example, and most others, also has three cojoined knobs of triangular shape joined across the apices by a bar. The claps is complete aprt from a small area of damage at one end of the decporative relief panel. The back face is undecorated and the catch element complete.
Form B18e clasps have been discovered mostly in East Anglia and Cambridgeshire, uncertain but datable associations are those of the examples from Girton, Cambs with a 6th-century cruciform brooch (Hines 1993, 60). Interestingly this clasp was found in the same area as an other Hines form B18e catchpiece, see SF-750F12, which is almost identical, probably indicating the presence of early Anglo-Saxon grave/s. | Subjects: | Hines Form B18E | 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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