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Description: | A copper alloy eye or loop piece from a sleeve clasp (also known as a wrist clasp). The piece is 35.5mm long, 16.1mm wide and 2.7mm thick. It is sub rectangular with four lobes along the rear edge which is shorter than the front edge. Each lobe contains a circular sewing hole. All but one of these has worn through. At the base of the lobes are two longitudinal grooves. The front edge of the clasp is decorated with two areas of five transverse grooves between three raised flat areas. A rectangular loop which is badly worn projects from the centre flat area. The object has a glossy dark green patina. The sleeve clasp bears similarities to number 27.6 (3) in West??s (1998) Corpus of Anglo Saxon Material from Suffolk. Another clasp recorded on the database has very similar decoration: record number NMS-5747C0 which is paralleled with Hines (1993) Form B12, as fig.90 a. and is dated to the 6th century. Sleeve clasps are generally accepted to date from the late fifth or sixth centuries. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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