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Description: | Found in 2001, south part of parish
SLEEVE CLASP Hines Form B12
Hook-piece from a copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines?s Form B12. It consists of a bar, 6 mm wide and 2 mm thick. This is plano-convex in cross-section and decorated with alternating broad and narrow transverse grooves. In the centre is a rectangular lobe which projects forward of the bar and is decorated with a central sunken square panel with a four-petalled flower in counter-relief. Behind this flower is a broader border, and then an undecorated trapezoidal flaring rear lug. There is a crack in this lug visible from the reverse. On the reverse of the forward-projecting part is a small but well-preserved curving hook. At either end of the bar is an undecorated panel the same width as the bar; these each have a D-shaped pierced sewing lug extending rearwards. One of the sewing lugs is broken and part is missing; the breaks seem comparatively fresh. Overall it is 39 mm long, 22 mm wide and 5 mm thick; it weighs 4.7g.. The clasp is generally in good condition with a glossy dark green patina, although there are some patches of corrosion. It is 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: | 400
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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SLEEVE CLASP
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