Record ID: NMS-F2B951
Object type: SLEEVE CLASP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete Early Anglo-Saxon gilded silver wrist-clasp of Hines's Form C1. Just over half survives, with cast zoomorphic decoration comprising the remains of two opposed curving pelleted necks with beaked head(s), the outside edge of both of which is bordered with stamped tiny triangles containing niello. There is one surviving broken pierced projecting lug on the rear edge. In the centre of the front edge is a rectangular projection decorated with an S shape reserved on a blue enamelled background, with a stump of a hook on the reverse. Granular breaks. Width 21mm, surviving length 2…
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Soham', grid reference and parish protected.