Casgliadau Arlein

Clamp for fastening the rim binding of a wooding bucket. At the rim are two pairs of ornamental grooves. The whole surface of the clamp with faint longitudinal grooves or scratches, too fine to show in a drawing. It is not clear whether these are a deliberate decoration or merely residual file-marks from the working of the bronze sheet from which the clamp ins made. The two rivets which fixed the clamp are preserved and are of the hollow tubular type. The clamp itself is a common Anglo-Saxon type, while the tubular rivets can be paralleled on buckets from pagan graves and also from Herpes. There are also more or less similar clamps from Buston.