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Description: | A complete copper-alloy sleeve or wrist clasp hookpiece of early Anglo-Saxon date of Hines Form B20 (1993, 64-65). Hines states that B20 is a populous and diverse group over 60 examples have been recorded and most are 6th century in date. This example consists of a cast plate/bar with a shaped rear edge with sewing lugs. It measures 35.20mm in length and 20.74mm in width, The hook element is rectangular in shape with an oval perforation. The decorative bar runs along the front edge and is rectangular in shape and 4.4mm in width, it is slightly raised and decorated with evenly spaced transverse grooves. The rear edge is shaped with three taller triangular projections alternate with two shorter triangular projections, the shorter projections have circular sewing holes through their tips, measuring 2.73mm in diameter. Running horizontally from the tips of the taller projections back to the bar there is a decorative band of small U-shaped indentations. | 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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