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Description: | Top half has a double set of four recessed transverse lines. Back half is recessed with an uneven serrated outside edge, hole at either corner. Remains of a hook on the reverse. Helen Geake writes: From the image, it appears that this is a clasp-half of a Hines Form B20 wrist-clasp (with plate and bar cast in one piece). The bar is divided into three by two sets of transverse grooves; each of the three panels appears to be filled with a circular patch of paler greyish metal, perhaps solder. The plate is undecorated, but the rear edge is shaped into four lobes. The outer two are larger and are perforated for sewing. The inner two appear smaller. There is no image of the reverse. Wrist-clasps date to the late fifth or sixth centuries AD.
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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