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-831AF6
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Early-Medieval wrist clasp. It most resembles Hines Form B12, and dates to the sixth century AD. Such clasps were made in two pieces, and this is the catch part only, having a loop to attach to a hooked, second part ( not found). The clasp is a cast rectangular bar shape, with a D-shaped loop projecting from the centre of one long side. On the opposite side are two of three tongue-shaped loops which would have been stitched to clothing. the third loop is missing due to old breaks. The top and bottom of the bar are square, as is the central part of the claps. There are n…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd August 2010
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yaxley', 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-20A0D1
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval copper alloy wrist clasp dating to the fifth-sixth centuries.It is an example of Hines type B12 clasp-half,and is a hookpiece with a T-shaped bar. It is 37.28mm long, with plain rectangular bars at the top, centre and bottom, separated by two areas of horinzontal grooved line decoration. There are two projecting loops or spiggots which are cast in with the bar.They each have a cental hole for attachment,and project from the top and bottom of the clasp-half .The projection from the central bar which forms the T shape is 12mm in length and ends in a small rectangular …
Created on: Wednesday 9th November 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.