Copper-alloy, 8.73 grams, 37.78 mm. 5th-6th century AD. A sturdy Anglian wrist clasp hook plate of Hines's Form B20 with a thick (about 5mm) front edge and the plate is composed from perforated conjoined lugs behind the bar which is provided with three rectangular raised panels. The hook is complete. There is no applied decoration. 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.64-5. Extremely fine condition. Provenance: from an old English collection, found Cambridgeshire, England.