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Description: | Five incomplete Anglo-Saxon wrist clasps, all made from copper alloy. The first measures 33.02mm by 14.8mm and weighs 4.9g. It is of Hine's B18b type and is rectangular with five roundels running along one edge. The roundels are separated from the main body of the clasp plate by two vertical grooves running the length of the plate. The plate has four regularly spaced perforations. Between the middle two perforations, but to the left hand side, there appears to be a further perforation. This is visible on both the upper and underside of the plate but is filled with copper alloy. The other vertical edge of the plate is plain, except for two areas of horizontal grooves. There is no sign of a clasp or spiggot. The underside of the plate shows traces of tinning.
The second wrist clasp fragment measures 14.33mm by 5.43mm. It also appears to be of Hines' B18b type. It is rectangular, with two out of a total of four roundels surviving along one vertical edge. There is evidence for three regularly spaced perforations running the length of the clasp plate. The other vertical edge of the clasp is plain - one T shaped spiggot remains. There are two areas of three grooves. The underside is plain.
The third fragment is too small to comment on the type. It measures 2.29mm x 3.58mm. It is rectangular in shape with a central slightly raised panel which is horizontally grooved in three places. There is a rectangular perforation to the right of the central panel and one circular perforation to the left. The underside is plain.
The fourth fragment measures 31.57mm x 12.89mm. It weighs 3.1g. Although it is only a small fragment it is comparable with Hines' B13a and B18b types, which have areas of horizontal grooves decorating the clasp.
The fifth fragment measures 21.09mm x 12.2mm and weighs 1.5g. It is too small to assign a type. Its remaining edge is decorated with five horizontal grooves. The grooved area is separated from the main body of the plate by two vertical grooves. The main body of the plate is plain; one circular perforation is evident - this is filled with a copper alloy rivet. | 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: | 500
699 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Philippa Walton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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