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Description: | A cast copper alloy unidentified object of probable medieval date. The object measures 31.3mm by 16.2mm by 5.5mm and weighs 5.4g. It is broadly rectangular and flat with rounded ends and a narrower tab on one side which has been bent backwards to form the hook. The ends are rounded and very worn; one of the two attachment holes has been almost totally worn away and the other in incomplete. The front is decorated with incised lines and pellets. Along the bent edge there are short closely spaced parallel diagonals, adjacent to this are two longitudinal lines of short transverse lines, then there are two solid longitudinal lines, another lines of pellets and a final solid line. Kevin Leahy comments that although this object looks superficially like an Anglo-Saxon wrist clasp or sleeve clasp, the hook (and corresponding slots) on sleeve clasps are narrower, only 10-15mm wide. He suggests that this object looks more likely to be a piece of edging, or a belt end, probably of medieval date.
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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