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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy wrist/ sleeve clasp. The surviving part of the clasp represents the eye-piece. The clasp is formed from slightly convex rectangular plate of copper alloy. One side has three lobes; the junctions between the lobes are pierced. The piercings are not in line, but sit on top of a double incised, parallel line. This is where the clasp would have been sown to the sleeve. There are two sets of horizontal incised lines decorating the opposite side of the clasp. One terminal has broken off and the break is irregular. Extending out from this side is a pierced loop, the 'eye'. It is rectangular and bent back on itself. This wrist clasp dates to the early 6th - 7th Century. Similar clasps can be seen in EAA report 84, p164.
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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