. The arts in early England. y assume that they were made, andtheir popularity in this region may possibly be due to certainspecial fashions in dress affected by the people of those partsof Britain. The position in which so many of the clasps havebeen found, especially in the cemetery at Sleaford, Lincoln-shire, shows that they were habitually worn at the wrist, pre-sumably though of course not certainly for the fastening ofsleeves. Mr. Thomas, the explorer of Sleaford, seemed tothink that they were for the closing of wristlets of leather orsome such material, but, as Mr. Leeds has pointed out
. The arts in early England. y assume that they were made, andtheir popularity in this region may possibly be due to certainspecial fashions in dress affected by the people of those partsof Britain. The position in which so many of the clasps havebeen found, especially in the cemetery at Sleaford, Lincoln-shire, shows that they were habitually worn at the wrist, pre-sumably though of course not certainly for the fastening ofsleeves. Mr. Thomas, the explorer of Sleaford, seemed tothink that they were for the closing of wristlets of leather orsome such material, but, as Mr. Leeds has pointed out,1 suchappliques if used on leather would be attached by rivets, andno signs of rivets seem to have appeared ; while on the otherhand clasps actually exist, in the Ashmolean and in Mr. S. collection in London, with woven fabric still adheringto them, even with the marks of stitches still apparent. 1 Northamptonshire Natural History Societys Journal, vol. xv, Sept. 1909, p. 93. LXXIX facing p. 365 CLASP SUITES H30UX. 2, natural size ; 1,5 natural su ADJUNCTS TO CLASPS 365 In the district indicated, not only are the known examplesnumerous, but the clasp develops forms more elaborate thoughartistically less meritorious than the specimens just illustratedfrom Kent and Sussex. The example PL lxxix, 2, from thecemetery at Barrington, Cambs, now in the CambridgeMuseum, exhibits a clasp to one half of which is appended, allin the same piece, a triangular projection the purpose of whichappears to have been the covering of the part slit up where thesleeve opens to let the hand through. The back view of thepiece on the left proves the continuity of the triangular exten-sion with the clasp proper. The existence of this completearrangement explains the appearance in graves in other ceme-teries of these ornate triangular pieces apart from the objects occur in this district as at North Luffenham,Rutland, PI. lxxix, 3. Whether these pieces were in mostcases separate or wer
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