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Description: | Copper alloy sleeve clasp element, Sixth century AD in date of a Hines type. It is made up from two pieces of sub-rectangular thick copper alloy sheets. The two sheets are fixed together by two 'buttons' with enlarged, disc-like decorated and gilded heads.There are no obvious methods of attachment of the reverse of the object. The object does resemble a sleeve clasp although being somewhat short. There does not seem to be any breakage along the long sides of the object but there is possibly a breakage at one end meaning there may have originally been three discs. The clasp shares similarities with LIN-014D25, NLM-C32EA3 and FAKL-114200 on the database. The length is 34mm and 14mm wide.Hines, J., 1993. Clasps hektespenner agraffen: Anglo-Scandinavian clasps of classes A-C of the 3rd to 6th centuries A. D. typology, diffusion and function Stockholm : Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, ppType C1
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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