File:Early-medieval lead object, probably a wrist-clasp (FindID 20053).jpg
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[edit]Early-medieval lead object, probably a wrist-clasp | |||
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Suffolk County Council, Helen Geake, 2013-06-24 09:27:23 |
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Title |
Early-medieval lead object, probably a wrist-clasp |
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Description |
English: 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. It may alternatively be a fragment of an actual wrist-clasp made from lead. Thirdly, it is possible that the fragment represents the curved top of a footplate upper border from a great square-headed brooch; or fourthly, a model used in the manufacture of one. Lead versions of early Anglo-Saxon dress accessories are occasional finds and it is very uncertain what they were used for. There do not appear to be any other recorded finds of lead wrist-clasps, but the headplate of a great square-headed brooch was found in Geneva and thought to be an actual brooch, not a model; occasionally pieces of lead cruciform brooches turn up. A similar fragment to sf5355, but made of copper-alloy, was found at West Stow and identified as coming from a great square-headed brooch (Hines 1997 pl. 12). Sixth century AD. |
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Depicted place | (County of findspot) Suffolk | ||
Date | between 500 and 600 | ||
Accession number |
FindID: 20053 Old ref: SF5355 Filename: FRK038sf652sf5355dwg.jpg |
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https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/430871 Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/430871/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/20053 |
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Horizontal resolution | 200 dpi |
Vertical resolution | 200 dpi |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows |
File change date and time | 09:23, 24 June 2013 |
Color space | Uncalibrated |
Image width | 547 px |
Image height | 370 px |
Date and time of digitizing | 10:03, 12 November 2012 |
Date metadata was last modified | 10:23, 24 June 2013 |
Copyright status | Copyright status not set |
Unique ID of original document | xmp.did:3ADE2560A6DCE21180F0BA9FD5EE4599 |
IIM version | 114 |