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Description: | Incomplete hook-piece from a Hines Form B20 wrist-clasp. Made of copper alloy, it was originally basically rectangular but is now very worn so that the corners are rounded. The front edge is thickened to imitate a separate bar, which although very worn has traces of broad transverse grooves. The edge of this bar is cut by three circular sewing holes; the clasp is broken across one of these (fairly fresh break). The rest of the plate is undecorated; the rear edge has three rounded cut-outs (one incomplete) forming four very worn projecting lobes (one missing). On the underside of the front edge is a 5 mm wide projection which was once a hook. Measures 28 x 13 mm. Wrist-clasps were used to fasten the cuffs of early Anglo-Saxon women's dresses. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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