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Wrist clasp
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Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service, Faye Minter, 2004-11-01 16:03:08
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Wrist clasp
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English: A complete hook-piece from a cast copper-alloy early Anglo-Saxon wrist-clasp, of Hines’s Form B19 (Hines 1993, 62-64). It is rectangular in shape with a bar and plate cast in one piece. The bar part has a wide bevelled edge, interrupted by three evenly spaced raised squares, one in the centre and one at either end. A worn hook projects from the centre of the front edge, on the reverse. The plate part, along the rear edge, is much flatter than the bar, and has a circular sewing perforation drilled through either end. The outer edge of the plate is decorated with a longitudinal row of triangular punchmarks. The hook-piece measures 31.5mm in length and 11.2mm in width. Late fifth or sixth century.

Form B19 is not a common form of wrist-clasp, and is believed to have been modelled on the more frequent B13a, which has a separate decorative bar added to the plate. Examples of Form B19 from Coddenham and West Stow of have stamped decoration.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 470 and 600
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FindID: 78302
Old ref: SF-3996F6
Filename: FRKSF-3996F6.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
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Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/41410
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/78302
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