Record Details
| NHER Number: | 15607 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Saxon metal find |
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Summary
In 1979, metal detecting recovered an Early Saxon decorated wrist clasp.
Images - none
Location
| Grid Reference: | TG 23 06 |
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| Map Sheet: | TG20NW |
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| Parish: | BIXLEY, SOUTH NORFOLK, NORFOLK |
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Full description
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.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Early Saxon - 410 AD to 650 AD)
Associated Finds
- SLEEVE CLASP (Early Saxon - 411 AD to 650 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | 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. |
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