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.

Record ID: SF-9200C5
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 B12 (bar only, with perforated sewing lugs). The bar is rectangular; about one-third is missing due to an old break, and the surviving part measures 27mm in length and 14mm in width. The upper face of the bar is decorated with a raised square moulding at the end, then with transverse mouldings and grooves, and then with a raised rectangular moulding in the centre of the bar. Beyond this are more transverse grooves and mouldings before the bar is broken. The rear edge has two surviving projections. In the centre …
Created on: Thursday 31st July 2003
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Creeting St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-91ABE4
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy catch-piece from a wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B20 (plate and bar cast in one piece with a shaped rear edge) (Hines 1993, 64-45). It is rectangular, 30.5mm in length and 12mm in width. The straight bar is decorated with eight evenly spaced transverse mouldings, each with a transverse groove through their centre. The junction between the bar and the plate is marked by two longitudinal grooves. Beyond these, the rear edge is formed from four rounded 'knobs' or discs, each with a ring-and-dot motif in the centre. Two have the remains of a further rounded pro…
Created on: Thursday 31st July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Creeting St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-916B95
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hook-piece from a copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B20, consisting of a plate and bar cast in one piece with a shaped rear edge(Hines 1993, 64-45). The clasp-half is roughly rectangular and measures 36mm in length and 13mm in width. It has a moulded straight narrow bar with three pairs of transverse grooves, one at either end and one slightly off centre. The rear edge is shaped with three projecting triangles; in between the triangles are two slighter rounded projections with central circular perforations for sewing the clasp-half to the garment. In between the bar and the…
Created on: Thursday 31st July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Creeting St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-FACFA4
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy decorative bar from a sleeve or wrist clasp. This bar is rectangular in shape measuring 37mm in length, 7mm in width and 3.5mm in thickness. The front face of this bar is decorated with five transverse bands, 6mm by 6mm in size, three are plain and arranged alternately with the other two, which are decorated with transverse grooves. The front face is slightly convex and the back face flat. The back face has traces of solder on it where it would have originally been attached to a plate, which would have been the means of attaching the clasp to the garment. T…
Created on: Thursday 24th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'winston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-DAA1D2
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of one half of an early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy wrist clasp. As it is a fragment (old break) it is not possible to be sure whether it is the hook-piece or the catch-piece of the clasp. One end survives, showing it to be basically rectangular; its surviving measurements are 18mm in length and 19mm in width. The front of the clasp is decorated with three rectangular grooves, one inside the other, which retain traces of gilding. The rear edge is made up of projecting triangles with a bar joining the apexes of the last two in the row. This bar would originally have joined a…
Created on: Monday 16th June 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Parham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10757
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hook-piece from a copper-alloy wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B12, 35mm in length and 20mm in width. The hook-piece is made of a bar alone, rectangular in shape with triangular terminals. There is decoration on its upper face consisting of a central square panel outlined with a double ridge, with a four-armed curving motif (almost a swastika) within it. Either side of this square decorative panel are two pairs of transverse grooves, and then the triangular terminals which are flat and undecorated. This wrist-clasp was sewn to the garment by the means of three evenly spaced lugs, with cent…
Created on: Friday 7th March 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10755
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy clasp-half from a wrist-clasp, formed of a rectangular bar, measuring 31.8mm in length and 7mm in width. The upper face of the bar is decorated with bands of transverse grooves in between three undecorated bands. Each of the undecorated areas has a semi-circular lug projecting from its rear edge, each with a central circular perforations for sewing the clasp-half to the garment. Two of these lugs are complete, although worn on the outer edge; the third is incomplete, and perhaps wore through on the outer edge. The reverse of this wrist-clasp half is flat and undecorated;…
Created on: Thursday 6th March 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10312
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy gilded gusset plate. Triangular with pierced lugs at each corner, all now broken. A slightly lower border along the short edge is undecorated, and is bisected by a deep groove running perpendicular to the edge up into the body of the gusset plate. This line forms the centre around which the chip-carved Style I decoration is largely symmetrically arranged, and around which the piece curves slightly. At the top, just below the apex loop, is a human mask looking upwards. Surviving length 55mm, surviving width 37mm; the plate is around 2.5mm thick. Gusset plates are a type …
Created on: Friday 17th January 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 15th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WALBERSWICK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10192
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy wrist clasp, catch piece. Bent and abraded. The front edge is thickened with a central oval hole 4 x 2mm and is decorated with transverse grooves. The outer half has two holes, each 3mm diam, and three lobes along the edge. Length 35mm, width 15mm. Similar to Hines 1993 p.60 fig 113 a.
Created on: Thursday 9th January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'EYE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10193
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy fragment from a gusset plate. It has a straight edge above which there is a pierced lobe at each end (both damaged); above this, the sides taper inwards to a break. The incised decoration is curvilinear and triangular. The piece is corroded and is slightly curved around an axis in the centre of the straight edge.
Created on: Thursday 9th January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'EYE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10042
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy hook-piece from a wrist-clasp. This wrist clasp is of Hines's type B18c and has a close parallel from Morningthorpe, Norfolk, grave 20 (Hines 1993, p59-60, fig 113c). It is 32mm in length and 21mm in width, and has a central plain bar 10mm in width delimited by a pair of longditudinal grooves on either side of it. On each side of this bar, to both front and rear edges, there is a row of flat conjoined knobs, each one with a ring-and-dot motif in its centre. In between each knob there is a circular perforation through which the clasp would have been sewn to the garment.…
Created on: Friday 20th December 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WALSHAM LE WILLOWS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9828
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hook-piece from a copper-alloy Anglo-Saxon wrist clasp, likely to be of Hines's Form B12 (1993, 47-9). The hook-piece consists of a bar, 44mm in length and 12mm in width at its widest point. The bar is flat and rectangular in cross-section. At either end of the bar is a raised square terminal measuring 9mm by 9mm, with a T-shaped projection extending from the rear edge. The bar is decorated with pairs of longditudinal grooves, within which are several transverse grooves. The bar is interrupted in the centre by a raised rectangular plate which projects to the front and measures 28mm …
Created on: Monday 25th November 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MILDENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9746
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete catch-piece from a copper-alloy wrist-clasp, probably of Hines's Form B13a. What remains is the bar of the clasp, which is rectangular in shape, 34mm in length and 18mm in width, and a separate fragmentary plate. The front of the bar is decorated with two sets of four transverse grooves, each set 6mm from either end of the bar. There are traces of gilding. The bar is attached by two rivets, one at either end, to the remains of the copper-alloy plate; this plate is fragmentary due to an old break. Hines's Forms B13 and B14 consist of plates with separate bars, B13 having a…
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8503
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Clasp-half from a wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B20, almost certainly a catchpiece. 33 mm long and 15 mm wide, it consists of a plate and flat 'bar' cast in one piece. The bar is at the front edge, and is barely thicker than the rest of the clasp-half; it is distinguished by having decoration of two pairs of double transverse grooves, one above and one below the centre; there may possibly be a fifth pair of grooves in the centre. The bar is divided from the plate by a double longitudinal groove. The plate has no decoration, but has a cut-out rear edge forming a rounded lobe at one end…
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8504
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy bar from a wrist-clasp, which would originally have been soldered to a separate plate. It is oval in cross-section and one face is decorated with equally spaced grooves and ridges giving a ribbed effect. Separate bars of this kind are found on Hines's Forms B13a, B14a, B17a; they date to the late 5th or 6th century AD.
Created on: Thursday 2nd May 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 26th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6474
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Extremely poorly cast copper-alloy hook-piece from a wrist-clasp of Hines's Form B12, which is possibly mis-cast and certainly unfinished. It has the usual bar connecting three sub-rectangular lobes, with the central lobe being larger to accommodate a hook on the underside. None of the usual transverse decoration is visible on the bar; some lumps along the middle form a kind of longitudinal ridge. One of the terminal lobes is comparatively neat and well formed, with a raised square in line with the bar, and a flatter lug pierced for sewing on the rear edge, which slopes slightly dow…
Created on: Monday 16th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5351
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy catch-piece from a wrist-clasp of Hines's Form C1, Fonaby type, now slightly bent. As with all C1 clasps, there is chip-carved relief decoration mainly consisting of an animal head at either end of the front edge with the long curving necks meeting in the centre. Each animal head has a round eye and a bird-of-prey-type beak curving right round to form a perforation. On top of the eye and the beak, forming either end of the catch-piece, are two squarish panels with a pointed element, perhaps an ear or a horn, behind; this forms the rear corner. Behind the headframe,…
Created on: Friday 27th April 2001
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5355
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Decorated lead fragment. Sub-rectangular, two edges are broken and the other two are made from the curving neck and head of an animal. The neck is wide and decorated with a running spiral between two wide raised bands; a tiny dot eye is enclosed within a frame and below is a raised crescent. The head probably ended in a curving beak but this is now missing. It is just over a millimetre thick. John Hines has seen an image of the fragment, and agrees that it there are four possibilities. Most probably it is a fragment of a lead model used in the manufacture of a wrist-clasp. …
Created on: Friday 27th April 2001
Last updated: Monday 24th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4862
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete hook-piece from a Hines Form B18d wrist-clasp. Made of copper alloy, it is basically rectangular with a thickened front edge which is decorated to imitate a separate bar, with alternating transverse narrow and broad grooves. Behind this is a longitudinal ridge, the edge of which is cut by three circular sewing holes. The rest of the plate is undecorated; the rear edge has three rounded cut-outs forming four sub-rectangular projecting lobes. On the underside of the front edge is a 4 mm wide hook. Measures 30 x 12.5 mm. Wrist-clasps were used to fasten the cuffs of early Anglo-…
Created on: Monday 26th February 2001
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4863
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete hook-piece from a Hines Form B18d wrist-clasp. Made of copper alloy, it was originally basically rectangular but is now very worn so that the corners are rounded. The front edge is thickened to imitate a separate bar, which although very worn has traces of broad transverse grooves. The edge of this bar is cut by three circular sewing holes; the clasp is broken across one of these (fairly fresh break). The rest of the plate is undecorated; the rear edge has three rounded cut-outs (one incomplete) forming four very worn projecting lobes (one missing). On the underside of the …
Created on: Monday 26th February 2001
Last updated: Monday 18th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4817
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy gusset plate, missing one lower corner but recognisably conforming to the usual pattern. Basically triangular, the two lower corners have birds' heads with blob eyes and long curly beaks, with a sewing hole slightly cutting the underside of the beaks. One corner has broken away across the sewing hole. The birds' necks curve up and inwards as raised undecorated bands, to meet at a central disc. Below this disc, at the base of the plate, the backs of the birds' heads are joined by a strut forming a circular hole (which was probably not used for sewing, as the slit…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK MARTLESHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4393
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Catch-piece from a Hines Form B13 wrist-clasp, now bent in half, consisting of a rectangular plate with silvery solder and the scar from a missing longitudinal bar, tube or plate. To the front of the scar is a narrow slot, now broken through (old breaks), and to the rear are two circular holes for sewing the clasp to the sleeve. There is no decoration on the plate. Original length 20 mm, width 12 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STONHAM ASPAL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2383
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy wrist clasp hook-plate, Hines form B18d. Plate and bar cast in one; bar decorated on upper surface with crudely applied transverse grooves; the bar is pierced by three circular attachment holes and its outer edge is deeply scalloped to from four sub-rectangular knops; behind each of the knops the metal is punched with a single punched ring-and-dot.
Created on: Friday 5th May 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2385
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy wrist clasp hook-plate, probably of Hines form B18d. Plate and bar cast in one; bar decorated on upper surface with crudely applied transverse grooves; the bar is pierced by three circular attachment holes and its outer edge has four damaged sub-triangular knops; the outer pair curving inwards; behind each of the knops the metal is punched with a single punched ring-and-dot; corroded.
Created on: Friday 5th May 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF1477
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy wrist clasp, probably of Hines form B18d. Rectangular plate and bar cast in one; the bar is decorated by a series of transverse incisions; the plate is pierced by 3 circular attachment holes and its outer edge is comprised of four sub-rectangular lobes each with a central nick.
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF688
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy wrist clasp, probably of Hines form B12. Bar formed from 3 rectangular fields (one missing) separated by transverse grooves and lines, the fields are decorated on their upper surface with incised double contoured diagonal crosses; one pierced attachment lug survives at the outermost field; eye missing also.
Created on: Thursday 16th December 1999
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF450
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragmentary gilded copper alloy wrist-clasp of Hines form B18b. Bar, flattened in section, decorated along its length with gilded transverse incisions and grooves; the remains of the bar carry two discoid projections, each with a central dot enclosed by a concentric ring of gilded finely-punched dots; both projections are joined by a central bar; the bottom one also has a lateral T-shaped extension. Very similar to an example from Barrington, Cambridgeshire, illustrated by Hines (1993, fig. 112a).
Created on: Thursday 25th November 1999
Last updated: Tuesday 19th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bloodmoor Hill', grid reference and parish protected.