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Description: | An Early Medieval (Anglo Saxon) copper alloy incomplete sleeve clasp - catchpiece (late 5th - 6th century). The clasp is an epsilon-shaped plate; the entire piece is curved longitudinally presumable to provide a better fit against the arm. The clasp has a T-shaped lug situated at one corner along the rear edge. Originally there was a matching lug on the other corner but the lower half of the clasp is missing. The remaining rear edge appears to be undecorated. The clasp is decorated with an engraved Style I zoomorphic head and neck, this pattern would have been repeated on the lower half. The neck is decorated with two curling S-shapes and a band of three raised parallel lines. The head is decorated with curling tendrils that depict the detail of the head. The catch-frame is undecorated and the bar that comprised the catch is missing. Thick gilding remains on the rear edge, the catch-frame and in the recesses of the carved decoration. There is neither decoration nor gilding on the reverse. Mid green patina.The sleeve clasp is similar to no.29.35 in The Ashmolean, found in Barrington, Cambridgeshire (MacGregor & Bolick 1993:181).Dimensions: length: 30.61mm; width: 21.13mm; thickness: 2.15mm; weight: 4.48g.Reference: MacGregor, A. & Bolick, E. 1993. A summary catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon collections (non-ferrous metals). British Archaeological Reports: British Series 230.
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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