Record ID: SF-A645DA
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy sleeve clasp of probable Early Anglo-Saxon attribution dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 500-600 AD. Only one half of the clasp survives, its partner now missing due to old damage.. It is formed of a bar with flattened square terminals and a rectangular flattened midsection topped with a smaller rectangular boss, each terminal itself being decorated with an incised saltire motif. The waisted areas between the terminals and midsection each demonstrate transverse raised mouldings that serve to give a 'ribbed' or corrugated effect. From the front of …
Created on: Friday 7th December 2018
Last updated: Friday 3rd April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Freckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-097342
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete hook-piece from a cast copper-alloy sleeve clasp probably belonging to an unusual type of Hines form B12. Only around half of the hook-piece survives, with the rest of the object broken away in old damage. The clasp would originally have been broadly sub-rectangular in plan, with a small hooked element projecting from its front edge and the remnants of a thinned rear edge projecting from the back edge of the piece. Most of the upper surface of the clasp is taken up with the 'bar' of the clasp, a rectangular panel of relief decoration within a raised border; the dec…
Created on: Tuesday 1st August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 20th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mendham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8A8298
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete and heavily worn Anglo-Saxon sleeve clasp probably of HInes B19, dating to the Early Medieval period, c. 500-550 AD. The fragment is broadly rectangular, with broken lower and back edges that have served to remove its lower third. The upper surface demonstrates a single broken circular sewing hole, below which a central transverse double row of punched annulets are visible before the object truncates abruptly in old damage. This double row meets a single straight longitudinal row of annulet stamps which runs down the (damaged) rear edge. A single transverse row of simila…
Created on: Thursday 20th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 15th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brandeston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-E172D7
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy early Anglo-Saxon wrist clasp of HInes Form B16. It consists of a flat rectangular plate, with four projecting attachment lugs on one long edge (the rear edge), each lug approximately triangular in shape and perforated with circular holes. The central two are intact and complete, whilst the outer two are incomplete due to old breaks. The opposite long edge also has two perforations about halfway along, both incomplete, and set 8.5mm apart.; these are where a hook or catch would normally be. The two short edges taper slightly toward the rear. The upper surface of the …
Created on: Monday 13th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Eye', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2C24E4
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy hook piece from a Hines form B20 wrist-clasp. It is rectangular, with a completely undecorated rectangular bar cast in one piece with a plate. The bar and plate are separated by a single incised line running longitudinally just behind the lugs, and two short lines almost parallel to this, top and bottom, closer to the bar. The plate consists of four lobes, probably all originally triangular, but that to one end is now worn and rounded. The top and bottom lugs are pierced with circular holes. There is a small hook on the reverse of the clasp, in the centre of the fro…
Created on: Friday 15th December 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 20th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Elmswell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-53A3D8
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One half of a copper-alloy sleeve/wrist clasp. The possible hook or catch element of this wirst clasp is now missing so it is no longer clear which half of it we have. This wrist clasp is of Hines Form B18 (1993, 59-62). It consists of a bar only, measuring 38.9mm in length and with a rear edge shaped with four cojoined rounded knobs. The bar measures 5.9mm in width alone and 13.9mm including the shaped rear edge. Inbetween the bases of each rounded knob, there are three circular lugs for sewing, each measuring 2.5mm in diameter. The front face of the bar is decorated with tra…
Created on: Monday 26th January 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Freckenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F89A82
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete catch-piece from a copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B20 (plate and bar cast in one piece). The catch-piece is rectangular and one end is missing. It measures 26.58mm in surviving length and 17.04mm in width. The rear edge of the plate is shaped with deep V-shaped grooves forming a row of rounded lobes; three survive out of a probable original four. The lobe at the surviving end is slightly more rounded, presumably due to wear, and there is a circular perforation through its centre, which would have acted as a sewing hole to attach the wrist-clasp to the garmen…
Created on: Monday 10th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickham Skeith', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-BC7072
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver sleeve or wrist clasp of Hines Class A, it measures 39.40mm by 18.36mm in size. Like all Class A wrist clasps this example consists of a lenght of wire, which is most commonly silver, which has its two ends rolled up towards each other in spirals. This example has four spirals on each side and the outer spiral has a diameter of 18.44mm. At the centre of the spirals standing alone there is a small loop, this is typical of a distinctive type which are found in England. A section is left inbetween the spirals from which, in this case, a hook element has been fashioned. …
Created on: Friday 7th November 2003
Last updated: Friday 3rd April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North of Ipswich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-935F46
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A worn and incomplete hook-piece from an early Anglo-Saxon wrist-clasp of Hines’s Form B13. It now consists of a copper-alloy plate only, and is rectangular in shape, measuring 34.13mm in length and 12.41mm in width. The rear edge is now very worn, and therefore incomplete, as is the hook, which projects from the centre of the front of the plate, measuring 13.22mm by 3.1mm in size. Despite its wear the rear edge does not appear to have been shaped, and was probably originally straight, as it is now. There are two circular perforations, both incomplete due to wear, which are at ei…
Created on: Wednesday 5th November 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blaxhall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9231A2
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy hook-piece from a wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B18b (bar and plate cast in one piece with knobs or discs along the rear edge). Roughly half of this hook-piece survives, with an old break; it is roughly rectangular and measures 23mm in length and 15mm in width. The hook-piece is bent and warped due to heat damage; this is important, as it implies that cremation was taking place on this probable cemetery site. The bar is decorated with evenly spaced transverse grooves, and the junction between the bar and the plate is marked by two longitudinal grooves. The r…
Created on: Thursday 31st July 2003
Last updated: Friday 15th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Creeting St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.