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Description: | A very unusual Early Anglo-Saxon gilded copper-alloy 'button' or rivet from a wrist-clasp of Hines Form B1.It comprises a hexagonal head, decorated with an engraved quatrefoil; the lentoid foils do not meet in the centre, and one is actually two foils doubled-up, possibly mis-engraved. These are contained within a neat border of tiny triangular stamps which closely follows the hexagonal edge, showing that the shape of the button is original and not due to damage. There is an integral shank on the reverse. It measures 11 x 10mm and the length of the rivet is 3mm.It appears that the hexagonal form of this button is so far unique. Hines divides B1 clasps with buttons decorated with quatrefoils into two types, the cast Nydam-style Form B1iia and the stamped Form B1iva (Hines 1993, figs. 21 and 36). Both were, at the time Hines wrote, confined to Scandinavia, but there are now other finds from Norfolk recorded on the PAS database (NMS-A56E02 and NMS-F09DB5). A near-complete hook-piece from a Hines Form B1i ('plain') clasp is also recorded on the PAS database, at FAKL-114200. B1 clasps date from the 5th-early 6th century.
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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