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Description: | Two clasp-halves, from different wrist-clasps. 1. Fragment of a Hines's Form B20 clasp, with a wide flat bar cast in one piece with a plate with shaped rear edge. The bar is decorated in the centre of the fragment with a single transverse ridge between two narrower transverse ridges. The rear edge is shaped into scalloped lugs, three of which survive; the central one has a circular sewing hole. 2. Fragment of a clasp-half of Hines's Form B20 or Form B18. It consists of a wide flat bar cast in one piece with a series of perforated triangular knobs or lugs on the rear edge. The bar has a panel of five transverse grooves; two perforations survive on the rear edge, but not enough of the clasp-half survives to be able to decide if these are contained within lugs (Form B20) or between knobs (Form B18).The original record stated that one clasp-half was silvered and the other tinned, but these coatings are notoriously impossible to tell apart without analysis. Neither the original record nor the image gave details of the reverses; it may be that any loop or hook did not survive. Wrist-clasps are an early Anglo-Saxon object type, dating to the late fifth or sixth century.
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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