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https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png UKDFD Recording Software https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/ Wrist clasps and gusset plates https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/artefact/early-medieval/wrist-clasps.html Wrist Clasp https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/artefact/early-medieval/wrist-clasps/wrist-clasp-57521.html Sun, 20 Aug 2023 22:08:35 GMT Wrist clasps and gusset plates Wrist Clasp  
Description: An early Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy wrist or sleeve clasp. The clasp is a composite type, having a decorative facial bar with a separate sheet-metal backplate. Both parts are joined together with a copper-alloy rivet at each end (one end incomplete). Decoration to the bar is moulded, and consists of transverse grooves arranged symmetrically between three plain panels. The backplate, in complete form, would have had a centrally placed hook or loop projecting on one side, and pierced lugs opposite for stitching the clasp onto the sleeve of a garment.

Complete clasps of this type consist of one hooked and one matching looped element. See UKDFD 16675 & UKDFD 35170 as examples with integral parts.
Category: Early Medieval, Wrist clasps and gusset plates
Category: Wrist clasps and gusset plates
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Wrist Clasp https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/artefact/early-medieval/wrist-clasps/wrist-clasp-57064.html Mon, 28 Nov 2022 20:22:07 GMT Wrist clasps and gusset plates Wrist Clasp  
Description: The bar element only of a wrist clasp of the early Anglo-Saxon period. The bar is rectangular with three square panels on the upper surface, one to either end and one in the centre. The two reduced spaces between the panels are decorated with a series of transverse grooves. There is no evidence of an integral projecting hook or loop from the bar, so the clasp was a type compositely made with a separate sheet plate (now missing) soldered onto the back of the bar for attachment purposes. There is evidence that the clasp was decoratively finished with a tinned surface.

See UKDFD 11288 as a clasp of similar form with integral parts, and UKDFD 4316 & NMS-758CA5 as composite types.
Category: Early Medieval, Wrist clasps and gusset plates
Category: Wrist clasps and gusset plates
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Wrist Clasp https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/artefact/early-medieval/wrist-clasps/wrist-clasp-56772.html Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:04:25 GMT Wrist clasps and gusset plates Wrist Clasp  
Description: A sub-rectangular cast copper-alloy wrist or sleeve clasp of the early Anglo-Saxon period. To the face, decoration consists of simple linear grooving with the partial remains of a tinned finish. The attachment edge is lightly notched along its length with three drilled holes for stitching the clasp onto a garment. Opposite, the integral clasp hook or corresponding loop element has broken off. A small patch of solder on the back suggests an attempt was made to replace the missing part.
Category: Early Medieval, Wrist clasps and gusset plates
Category: Wrist clasps and gusset plates
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Wrist Clasp https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/artefact/early-medieval/wrist-clasps/wrist-clasp-56379.html Tue, 28 Sep 2021 14:22:54 GMT Wrist clasps and gusset plates Wrist Clasp  
Description: A decorative wrist clasp of the early Anglo Saxon period. The clasp has two expanding wings, each outwardly projecting from a square central boss. Each wing has an incomplete attachment loop, and has gilt decoration consisting three deeply set grooves at the juncture of the boss. The boss is framed with a central pattern in gilt relief consisting four spiraling arms of Celtic inspiration. The clasp's loop for attachment to a paired hooked clasp is broken on the outer edge of the boss.

For a corresponding hooked clasp of the same form, see; NMS-37374B.
Category: Early Medieval, Wrist clasps and gusset plates
Category: Wrist clasps and gusset plates
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Wrist Clasp https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/artefact/early-medieval/wrist-clasps/wrist-clasp-56361.html Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:15:05 GMT Wrist clasps and gusset plates Wrist Clasp  
Description: A cast copper-alloy wrist or sleeve clasp of the early Anglo-Saxon period. The face is decorated with multiple punched dots, between which there are two holes for stitching the clasp onto a garment. The edge of the attachment end has four rounded lobes, one of which has been drilled through with a small hole that has broken through its side. The clasp bar is decorated with transverse grooves. On the back of the bar is a small blunt hook for attaching to a paired looped clasp.
Category: Early Medieval, Wrist clasps and gusset plates
Category: Wrist clasps and gusset plates
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Wrist Clasp https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/artefact/early-medieval/wrist-clasps/wrist-clasp-56360.html Sun, 26 Sep 2021 10:02:51 GMT Wrist clasps and gusset plates Wrist Clasp  
Description: A cast copper-alloy wrist or sleeve clasp of the early Anglo-Saxon period. The attachment end is decorated with four punched dots, between which there are three holes for stitching the clasp onto a garment. The edge of the attachment end had four projecting knops, but one is now missing. The clasp bar is decorated with transverse grooves and has a projecting integral loop of reduced thickness for receiving a paired clasp hook.
Category: Early Medieval, Wrist clasps and gusset plates
Category: Wrist clasps and gusset plates
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Gusset Plate https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/artefact/early-medieval/wrist-clasps/gusset-plate-27075.html Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Wrist clasps and gusset plates Gusset Plate  
Description: An elaborately decorated ('chip-carved') cast copper-alloy gusset plate (sleeve fittting) of the early Anglo-Saxon period. The plate is of an elongated sub-triangular form, with a grotesque face-mask at each end. The two masks face outwards and the heads are connected by a long slender 'neck' with a bulbous swelling at the centre. The mask at the narrower end appears to depict an extended tongue. On either side of the mount, at the wider end, there are two well defined Salin Style I animals with classic three-clawed crouching legs. The animals face inwards and flank the face-mask at that end of the mount, their claws almost touching its eyes. The front of the mount is heavily gilded, with much of the gilt finish surviving in the recesses of the design. The back is tinned or silvered. The mount has two holes for attachment, one on each side at the wider end.

A gusset plate was sometimes sewn to the sleeve of a garment in conjunction with a pair of functional wrist clasps as a decorative dress accessory. The fact that these fittings are few in number suggests that they were not a common feature.
See also; UKDFD 3271UKDFD 17061 & UKDFD 56351
Category: Early Medieval, Wrist clasps and gusset plates
Category: Wrist clasps and gusset plates
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Gusset Plate https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/artefact/early-medieval/wrist-clasps/gusset-plate-56351.html Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:09:16 GMT Wrist clasps and gusset plates Gusset Plate  
Description: An incomplete openwork gusset plate (sleeve fitting) of the early Anglo Saxon period. The plate is triangular in form, lightly curved, with fractured evidence of corner projections (attachment loops). The terminal end is now missing. Zoomorphic ornamentation around the periphery and open central frame consists of elongated animals, these being of double and triple stranded ribbons. A gilt finish remains within the recesses of the design.

A gusset plate was sometimes sewn to the sleeve of a garment in conjunction with a pair of functional wrist clasps as a decorative dress accessory. The fact that these fittings are few in number suggests that they were not a common feature.

See also; UKDFD 27075, UKDFD 17061 & UKDFD 3271
Category: Early Medieval, Wrist clasps and gusset plates
Category: Wrist clasps and gusset plates
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Wrist Clasp https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/artefact/early-medieval/wrist-clasps/wrist-clasp-56274.html Sun, 29 Aug 2021 17:38:28 GMT Wrist clasps and gusset plates Wrist Clasp  
Description: The hooked section of a two-part hook-and-eye wrist clasp of the early Anglo-Saxon period. The face is symmetrically decorated with a cast zoomorphic design consisting of two opposed birds, the neck and bodies of each simply formed by arched ribbons, each terminating in a small head with beaded eye and curved beak. Projecting centrally between the birds is a tab with rearward facing hook. The opposite outer edge of the clasp is decorated with a smaller zoomorphic moulding with central perforation. There are two incomplete attachment loops, one positioned at each corner. A gilt finish survives within the recesses of the design, the back is plain and undecorated.

The clasp was sewn to the sleeve of a garment utilising each loop. The 'hook' could then fasten or unfasten to a matching clasp with a looped 'eye' element to tighten or loosen the sleeve at the wrist as required. See; WMID-391B83 as an example of a looped clasp of similar design, also; NMS-A7BC71.
Category: Early Medieval, Wrist clasps and gusset plates
Category: Wrist clasps and gusset plates
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Wrist Clasp https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/v46/artefact/early-medieval/wrist-clasps/wrist-clasp-43452.html Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:00:00 GMT Wrist clasps and gusset plates Wrist Clasp  
Description: Approximately half of a small rectangular mount, possibly the top bar from an unusual wrist clasp form dating to the early Anglo-Saxon period. The bar consists two (of probably three) decorated rectangular panels, the central panel being flanked by wide transverse grooves. Each panel is decorated with framed Salin Style 1 dis-articulated animal parts in relief, i.e. legs, heads and eyes. On the back is one of two attachment lugs which are transversely pierced for a separate securing pin. For similar examples, see; LEIC-577802 & NMS-5196E4
Category: Early Medieval, Wrist clasps and gusset plates
Category: Wrist clasps and gusset plates
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