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SLEEVE CLASP
Unique ID: NMS-50EE93
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An Early Anglo-Saxon wrist-clasp eye-plate of Hines Form B20, with the eye incomplete and one corner of the rear edge missing. The attached bar consists of four square bosses and three sets of five longitudinal groves. The rear edge is scalloped and there are three attachment holes. An arc of punched annulets running from one side to the other passes across the central hole. The surviving piece measures 22 x 41mm. It dates from the early 6th century.
Class: Hines Form B20
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 500
Date to: Circa AD 550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 41 mm
Width: 22 mm
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 54168
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: North Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Warham
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | B20 |
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