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Description: | Found in 2003, north part of parish Linton
SLEEVE CLASP Hines Form C
Hook-piece from a gilded copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines?s Form C. The clasp is basically a rectangular plate with relief decoration of two C-shapes, each of which is a Style I animal seen in profile. Each animal consists of a long curving body made up of a raised border to either side with a lower-relief line, perhaps originally beaded but now worn, in between. The body runs up to a curved headframe at the inner corner of the clasp, with a rounded or curly lappet projecting to the rear and a backwards-curling lower end. There is a small pellet in the angle of the headframe, perhaps representing a cheek, and then a much bigger pellet, probably representing the eye. Then comes a curly beak, which fills and follows the inner contour of the body. Slight traces of gilding are visible in some of the recesses of the relief decoration. A central rectangular panel links The outer borders of the two bodies. This is cut through by a circular hole, 3 mm in diameter, of unknown function. In front of this the bodies each terminate in a C shape, and then there is a further raised rectangular panel, on the underside of which are the remains of the hook. In between the two animals is an undecorated triangular panel, and on each of the rear corners is an incomplete circular sewing lug. The breaks are old and worn and the clasp weighs 6.8g. There is a slight curve from front to back of the clasp to allow it to fit around the wrist. This clasp is early Anglo-Saxon and dates to the sixth century.
L. 38 mm
W. 23 mm
Th. 3 mm
early EARLY MEDIEVAL 500-600 | 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
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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