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Description: | A cast copper-alloy hook-piece from a wrist clasp of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon date, Hines Form B18c. It is flat, rectangular in form with a curved profile. At the centre is a rectangular bar that is decorated with four vertically incised grooves. Both the front and back edges of the bar are decorated with rows of conjoined knobs. These have a row of three sewing holes positioned along the outermost incised grooves of the central bar at the point where the lobes/knobs meet, with a small shallow groove extending from the holes to the outer edges of the clasp. These would have enabled attachemnt to the garment. The front face has traces of an added white metal coating that is particularly well preserved on the knobs. The back face is undecorated but there is a small rectangular shaped hook, perhaps missing its very tip, at the centre of one of the rows of conjoined knobs. The entire object measures 32.37mm in length, 21.11mm in width, 2.38mm in thickness, and weighs 8.44g. This wirst clasp is of Anglo-Saxon date and falls into Hines' Form B18c due to the presence of the rows of conjoined knobs, the white metal coating and the sewing holes (Hines, 1993: pp. 59-60). It draws a close parallel to an example from Morningthorpe, Norfolk (Hines, 1993: fig. 113c) and another recorded on the PAS database from Suffolk (SF10042). These indicate a date in the late-5th to 6th centuries AD for the current example.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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