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Description: | A copper-alloy hook-piece from a wrist-clasp. This wrist clasp is of Hines's type B18c and has a close parallel from Morningthorpe, Norfolk, grave 20 (Hines 1993, p59-60, fig 113c). It is 32mm in length and 21mm in width, and has a central plain bar 10mm in width delimited by a pair of longditudinal grooves on either side of it. On each side of this bar, to both front and rear edges, there is a row of flat conjoined knobs, each one with a ring-and-dot motif in its centre. In between each knob there is a circular perforation through which the clasp would have been sewn to the garment. The reverse of the clasp is undecorated and there is a hook in the centre of one of the rows of conjoined knobs. This wrist clasp is Anglo-Saxon and 5th or 6th century in date. Hines comments that the Morningthorpe parallel is 'an unusual example'. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 470
600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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