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Description: | An incomplete catch-piece from a copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B20 (plate and bar cast in one piece). The catch-piece is rectangular and one end is missing. It measures 26.58mm in surviving length and 17.04mm in width. The rear edge of the plate is shaped with deep V-shaped grooves forming a row of rounded lobes; three survive out of a probable original four. The lobe at the surviving end is slightly more rounded, presumably due to wear, and there is a circular perforation through its centre, which would have acted as a sewing hole to attach the wrist-clasp to the garment. The plate part is not decorated and is rather narrow. The junction between the plate and the bar area is marked by two longitudinal parallel grooves. The bar itself is flat and wide. In the centre is a rectangular panel bordered on either side by a pair of transverse grooves. This panel is decorated with five small dots, one in each corner and one in the centre. The surviving end has another panel, probably originally square but now worn and rounded. It is bordered by a single groove and separated from the central panel by a short undecorated length. The end panel is decorated with four dots, one in each corner. The other end is missing. The front of the central panel has the remains of a loop serving as the catch. All breaks are old. The reverse is undecorated. Early Anglo-Saxon, late 5th or 6th century (Hines 1993, 64-5). | 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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