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Unique ID: FAKL-51F195
Object type certainty: Certain
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Fragment of early Anglo-Saxon sleeve clasp of Hines form B20. Cast copper alloy, it appears to have suffered extensive post-depositional wear. The rear edge is made up of a series of cojoined roundels (three survive of a probable original four) and between the end pair is a 2.5mm diameter attachment hole. Wear obscures the decoration, but the front edge (which retains traces of the hook) bears groups of transverse, incised lines separated from the roundels by a pair of longitudinal grooves. Length 30.0mm, Width 18.2mm, Thickness 1.7mm, Mass 4.63g.
Although this looks very like a Hines form B18c clasp, it differs in principle in not having perforations between all the conjoined roundels (Hines 1993, 64).
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Class: Hines form B20
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 470
Date to: Circa AD 570
Quantity: 1
Length: 30 mm
Width: 18.2 mm
Thickness: 1.7 mm
Weight: 4.63 g
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st September 1990
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Other reference: Image 592, Finder's No.20
4 Figure: SE7356
Four figure Latitude: 53.99488987
Four figure longitude: -0.88797588
1:25K map: SE7356
1:10K map: SE75NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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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 |