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Description: | Hook-piece from a copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon wrist clasp, likely to be of Hines's Form B12 (1993, 47-9). The hook-piece consists of a bar, 44mm in length and 12mm in width at its widest point. The bar is flat and rectangular in cross-section. At either end of the bar is a raised square terminal measuring 9mm by 9mm, with a T-shaped projection extending from the rear edge. The bar is decorated with pairs of longditudinal grooves, within which are several transverse grooves. The bar is interrupted in the centre by a raised rectangular plate which projects to the front and measures 28mm in length and 12mm in width. This is decorated towards the front by two four-petalled flowers within a raised rectangular border. The other (rear) end is lower, and terminates in another T-shaped projection; this has a further small rectangular projection at its rear edge. Traces of gilding remain on the upper face. The reverse is flat and undecorated, with a rectangular hook in the centre. This type of Hines Form B12, with a T-shaped lug, is best paralleled at Sleaford in Lincolnshire and West Stow in Suffolk (Hines 1993, fig. 93 c-d). They were attached by taking the sewing thread around the T-shaped lug. This wrist clasp is late 5th or 6th century in date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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