purse
- Museum number
- 1939,1010.3
- Description
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Plain gold clasp, rectangular, with a cavity in the long side and a short knob burred over a rectangular washer on back. This object was designed to engage the hinged tongue of purse-lid 1939,1010.2.
- Production date
- early 7thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 2.40 centimetres
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Weight: 9.49 grammes
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Width: 1 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Publications:
Hicks, C., 1985. The Birds on the Sutton Hoo Purse. Anglo-Saxon England 15, pp. 153–65
- Location
- On display (G41/dc1/sG)
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2007 17 Mar-28 Oct, Suffolk, Sutton Hoo Visitors Centre, Wondrously Wrought
1980 10 Mar-30 Sep, Sweden, Stockholm, Statens Historika Museum, The Vikings are Here
- Acquisition date
- 1939
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1939,1010.3
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1939,10-10,21 (former number)
