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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B20 (plate and bar cast in one). The catch-piece and hook-piece are identical. The bars are each divided into five panels; the centre panel and the end panels are square and slightly raised [and appear from the image to have a white-metal coating]. The intervening panels are slightly longer, and each has a central transverse ridge. The plates are lower, and consist of three rounded lugs, each with a circular sewing hole. These alternate with two lower, more pointed lugs. The catch-piece has an elongated rectangular loop or catch which projects from the front edge of the bar, and brings the width of the catch-piece up to 15mm. The hook-piece is 11.5 mm wide and has a hook in the centre of the reverse, also on the front edge. Each clasp-half is 34mm long. Early Anglo-Saxon, late fifth or sixth century.It is unusual to find both halves of a wrist-clasp. The pair are almost certainly from a grave and imply that it has only recently been eroded into the topsoil.
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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