NHER 15607 (Find Spot record) - Saxon metal find

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Summary

In 1979, metal detecting recovered an Early Saxon decorated wrist clasp.

Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

Location

Map sheet TG20NW
Civil Parish BIXLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK

Map

1979. Metal-detecting.
Recovered east of railway line.
Damaged gilt-bronze wristclasp with remains of 'eye' decorated with Style I animal ornament; see Cambridgeshire type Barrington B. 6th century. (S1), copy in file.
Identified by E.B. Green (NCM). A. Lawson (NCM) 1979.
This is a Hines Form C5 and is described and illustrated in (S2). Two other Form C5 clasps are known, from Sisland, Norfolk (See NHER 21871) and Snape, Suffolk. A. Rogerson (HES), 6 February 2017.
Updated by A. Beckham (HES), 23 March 2017.

  • --- Record Card: NAU Staff. 1974-1988. Norfolk Archaeological Index Primary Record Card.
  • --- Secondary File: Secondary File.
  • <S1> Photograph: NLA. Finds Photograph.
  • <S2> Publication: Hines, J.. 1993. Clasps, hektespenner, agraffen. Anglo-Scandinavian Clasps of Classes A-C of the 3rd to 6th centuries AD. Typology, Diffusion and Function.. p. 72. p. 72.
  • SLEEVE CLASP (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)

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Record last edited

Mar 23 2017 11:53AM

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