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Description: | Sleeve clasp of Hines Form B1. Made up from two pieces of sub-rectangular 0.6mm thick copper alloy sheet, one with an edge curved around to form an elongated hook which runs almost the full length of the clasp, the other bearing the remains of the holes through which the clasp was sewn to one side of the sleeve. The two sheets were fixed together by three 'buttons' or rivets with enlarged, disc-like heads 10.2mm diameter x 2.2mm thick. These appear to have been silvered but are not otherwise decorated. This lack of decoration means that the clasp is of Hines Form B1i, 'plain', found in Scandinavia, Schleswig-Holstein and England and dated to the last quarter of the fifth century or the first half of the sixth century (Hines 1993, 15-16).Length 29.4mm, width 14.5mm, total thickness 4.6mm, weight 5.7g.Compare other B1 buttons on the PAS database at NMS-A56E02, NMS-F09DB5 andNMS-BEEA86.
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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