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Description: | An incomplete gilded copper alloy early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) wrist-clasp half. The rear edge is decorated with four conjoined roundels, each with a line of small dots around the edge and three leaf-shapes in a trefoil in the centre. The lack of attachment holes behind the bar suggest that lugs or spiggots would have been present behind the roundels originally. Running longitudinally across the centre of the outer face are two raised ridges. The front edge has a long rounded hole in the centre functioning as the catch-element. Parts of both edges are missing and one end of the catch-element is bent to the rear. The surface is very worn and corroded and the gilding is only present in places on the outer face.The fine decoration, row of roundels and gilding present on this example suggests that it belongs to Hines (1993, 59) Form B18, a relative of Form B12. The fact that it was attached with lugs rather than holes suggests that it belongs to sub-group b, of which Hines lists only one example from Morningthorpe found in an early 6th century context (ibid. 59).Length: 34.65mm, width: 15.57mm, thickness: 2.64mm, weight: 4.85g
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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