6th century AD. A copper-alloy wrist-clasp hook-plate, decorated with chip-carved Style I animals between scroll motifs, four attachment piercings. Cf. The Portable Antiquities Scheme, record id. NMS-954C64, for similar. 8.6 grams, 43mm wide (1 3/4"). From the late Alison Barker collection, a retired London barrister; from her collection formed 1960s-1990s. The clasp belongs to Hines form C3. During the late 5th and early 6th century, sleeve or wrist clasps characterized female accoutrements in Anglian Suffolk, Norfolk and Lincolnshire, introduced to Anglo-Saxon lands from Southern Scandinavia as part of the second wave of Germanic incursion in the second half of the 5th century AD.