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SLEEVE CLASP
Unique ID: NLM4253
Object type certainty: Certain
Fragment of a Style I florid cruciform brooch, traces of gilding. Anglo-Saxon.
Helen Geake writes:
The image attached to this record appears to be that of a fragment of Hines Form C1 wrist-clasp, with relief decoration. What survives to be illustrated is part of a 'Mildenhall type'; the profile neck and head of a Style I predatory bird curled tightly around, with the beak coiled into a central spiral. The neck is decorated with a line of running spirals ending in two square blocks each with an incomplete median groove. See Hines 1993, fig. 130, which has two very similar examples from Mildenhall in Suffolk and Spong Hill in Norfolk.
The Object Type has accordingly been changed from 'Brooch' to 'Sleeve Clasp' and the classification and sub-classification added. This re-identification does not affect the date, which is still broadly sixth century.
Class: Hines Form C1
Sub class: Mildenhall Type
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Ascribed Culture: Anglo-Saxon [scope notes| view all attributed records]
Date from: AD 500
Date to: AD 600
Dimensions and weight
Length: 19.1 mm
Width: 16.9 mm
Thickness: 2.4 mm
Weight: 2.95 g
Quantity: 1
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Manufacture method: Cast [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Decoration style: Floral [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Surface Treatment: Gilded [scope notes | view all attributed records]
Spatial data
Region: East Midlands
County: Lincolnshire
District: South Kesteven
To be known as: LINCOLNSHIRE BASTON
Method of discovery: Metal detector
[scope notes]
General landuse: Cultivated land [scope notes]
Specific landuse: Character undetermined [scope notes]
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 10th February 1999
Personal details
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Recorded by: Marina Elwes
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Created:
Wednesday 11th October 2000
Updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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