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Description: | A complete copper-alloy catch piece from an early Anglo-Saxon wrist or sleeve clasp of Hines Form B18e (Hines 1993, 60-61, fig 116). It measures 34mm in length and 15mm in width. Hines explains that form 18 clasps essentially consist of a bar with a row of cojoined knobs along the rear edge, they are relatively elaborate and many examples, including this one, are gilt.
This example is form B18e as its bar has a prominent central rectangular area containing a simple ladder motif of relief decoration, with two plain wings at either end. This example, and most others, also has three cojoined knobs of triangular shape joined across the apices by a bar. The front face is also gilt, the clasp is complete apart from a small area of dmaage at one end of the plate. The back face is undecorated and the catch element complete.
Form B18e clasps have been discovered mostly in East Anglia and Cambridgeshire, uncertain but datable associations are those of the examples from Girton, Cambs with a 6th-century cruciform brooch (Hines 1993, 60). Interestingly this clasp was found in the same area as an other Hines form B18e catchpiece, see SF-756682, which is almost identical, probably indicating the presence of early Anglo-Saxon grave/s. | 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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