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Description: | Copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B12. It consists of a rectangular bar divided into five sections. There are three square undecorated panels with a neatly ribbed section between each them. The ribs are tightly arranged and form a rectangular panel which is D-shaped in cross-section. There is an integral loop extending from each square panel, and a small rivet hole at the opposite end of the central square panel. On the reverse of this panel there is the remains of a copper alloy rivet fixing a seperate incomplete copper alloy plate to the underside of the clasp. Early Anglo-Saxon, late fifth or sixth century 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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