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Description: | Incomplete Early Saxon gilt wrist clasp, square central boss decorated with counter-relief swastika with curved arms, flat-sectioned rectangular projection (unrolled hook), projecting from one side. Short bar of flattened D-section above and below boss with transverse rib at flat splayed terminal(s) (one missing), surviving terminal with fragment of integral broken loop on outside edge (relatively recent granular breaks). 20 (hook unrolled) x >26mm. Cf. Hines (1993) 46-9, fig.93e, Form B12 Morningthorpe Type. 6th century.
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