Copper-alloy, 3.31 grams, 30.95 mm. 5th-6th century AD. An Anglian wrist clasp of Hines's Form B14a, formed as a vertical bar with three lugs on the back edge, all pierced for attachment to the cuff of a female's shift. The vertical bar features two facetted rectangular panels decorated with transverse banding and punched triangular marks. The catchplate is still in place on the front plate. Wrist clasps were a long-lived fashion among Anglian women, used in pairs to close the cuffs of their long-sleeved shifts. Reference: Hines, J. Clasps-Hektespenner-Agraffen: Anglo-Scandinavian Clasps of the Third to Sixth Centuries AD. Typology, Diffusion and Function. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 1993, p.54. Extremely fine condition. Provenance: from an old English collection, found Cambridgeshire, England.