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Description: | A copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon sleeve or wrist clasp dating from the late 5th to 6th century (Hines 1993, 64-5), probably of Hines Form B18. It is a catch piece and consists of a rectangular loop projecting from the centre of the front edge of a longitudinal raised bar. The bar is decorated with transverse ridges and grooves. On the other side of the bar is a plate of seven sub circular lobes. Each has a deep depression in the centre, but is not pierced. Projecting from between the last two lobes at each end is a further loop; both are broken, but these would have been the loops for sewing to the garment. The reverse of the bar is hollow. The sleeve clasp has agrey green patina, and dates from the 5th or 6th century. Compare NMS-F3E494. A matching example, but also a catch piece has been found in the same field, a cemetery site: SWYOR-BA4544.
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