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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon wrist or sleeve clasp half of Hines form B12 (1993, 46-47, fig 90). It is formed of a bar alone which was originally sewn onto the garment via open lugs cast in one with the bar. The hook and catch elements are cast with the bar too but in this case wear and damage is too great to determine with any certainty whether this is a catch or hook piece.
This example has a straight bar, rectangular in shape, with one terminal now missing due to old breaks. There are fragmentary remains of integral sewing lugs along one longitudinal edge and a fragment of the hook or catch element on the other. It measures 30mm in surviving length and 14mm in width. Both faces are flat, it is 3mm thick. The front face has a slightly raised square terminal followed by a band of four transverse grooves then a slightly raised rectangular central part with the remains of another band of transverse decorative grooves to the other side of this.
Similar B12 form wrist clasps have been found in Girton, Cambs and Northwold Norfolk, they are dated to the 6th century (Hines 1993, 46). | 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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