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Description: | Hook-piece from a copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B20, consisting of a plate and bar cast in one piece with a shaped rear edge(Hines 1993, 64-45). The clasp-half is roughly rectangular and measures 36mm in length and 13mm in width. It has a moulded straight narrow bar with three pairs of transverse grooves, one at either end and one slightly off centre. The rear edge is shaped with three projecting triangles; in between the triangles are two slighter rounded projections with central circular perforations for sewing the clasp-half to the garment. In between the bar and the shaped rear edge there is a longitudinal row of ring-and-dot motifs. On the reverse a small hook survives projecting, just off centre, from the front edge of the bar. Wrist-clasps, such as this example, are early Anglo-Saxon and date to the late 5th or 6th 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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