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Description: | A copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon wrist or sleeve clasp hook piece of Hines Class B18d (Hines 1993, 60-61, fig 115,a). Measuring 32.30mm in total length and 18.49mm in width, complete apart from the terminal of one cojoined knob, which is missing due to an old break.
This hook piece is of form B18 as it consists of a bar with a row of cojoined knobs along the rear edge. The hook element is integral and rectangular in shape, projecting from the centre of the inner edge. The bar is decorated with transverse mouldings and evenly spaced transverse grooves. There are then three evenly spaced circular holes between four cojoined knobs projecting from the rear edge. These knobs have ring and dot motifs in their centres and have rectangular projecting terminals, producing a castellated appearance, it is this that classifies this hook piece as Class B18d.
This example is very similar to the Class B18d from Westgarth Gardens, Bury St Edmunds and all known examples of this type are from East Anglia and date to the last quarter of the 5th or first quarter of the 6th centuries (Hines 1993, 60). | Subjects: | Hines Class B18d | 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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