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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy wrist-clasp hook-plate of Hines' form C3. The outer part of the hooked projection is missing. On the rear edge there is a break across one of two perforations for attachment and a central heart-shaped motif. On the front chip-carved ornament consists of two symmetrically arranged Style I animals between scroll motifs near the sides. In the centre a large mask motif faces to the rear. Half of a large roundel survives in front of the head, the rest having been lost with the hook element. This circle would have been the central motif of the complete clasp, i.e. when the two halves were conjoined. Length 44mm, width at least 26mm. Cf. Morning Thorpe grave 353 F, G, J and H (EAA 36 fig.414). 6th century.
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