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Description: | A complete copper-alloy hook piece from an early Anglo-Saxon wrist or sleeve clasp of Hines Form B18e (Hines 1993, 60-61, fig 116). It measures 32.3mm in length and 16.1mm in width. Hines explains that form 18 clasps essentially consist of a bar with a row of cojoined knobs along the rear edge, they are relatively elaborate and many examples are gilt. This example is form B18e as its bar has a prominent central rectangular area containing a simple ladder motif of relief decoration, with two plain wings at either end. The ends of these plain wings have V-shaped notches cut into them. This example, and most others, also has three cojoined knobs of triangular shape joined across the apices by a bar. The back face is smooth and undecorated.Form B18e clasps have been discovered mostly in East Anglia and Cambridgeshire, uncertain but datable associations are those of the examples from Girton, Cambs with a 6th-century cruciform brooch (Hines 1993, 60). This clasp of Hines form B18e is the same form as two other catch piece wrist clasps from Freckenham see SF-756682 and SF-756682.
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