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Description: | Catch-piece from a copper-alloy wrist-clasp, of Hines?s Form B20. The bar and plate are cast in one piece. The bar has three reserved panels, all square, divided by two longer panels of transverse ribbing, each having seven transverse grooves. The two ribbed panels are joined by a curving catch or loop which projects from the front edge; the length of the loop?s perforation is about the same as the length of the central square panel. The plate is lower than the bar, and is now incomplete. The remains of two circular sewing holes can be seen, one at either end, each one probably housed in a rounded lug projecting rearwards. In between there seems to have been a single longer triangular or rounded lug, making this clasp-half a Form B20 with shaped rear edge. The clasp is 30mm long and 15.8mm wide. Early Anglo-Saxon, late fifth or sixth century. | 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
599 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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