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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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Early-medieval lead object, probably a wrist-clasp
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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.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Suffolk
Date between 500 and 600
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FindID: 20053
Old ref: SF5355
Filename: FRK038sf652sf5355dwg.jpg
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source 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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