Clasps come in many forms based on the clothing worn.  Most of these clasps are found near the shoulders, illustrating clothing that was attached there.  Other clasps are found at the waist.  The size/shape of the clasps are not based on their placement.  They can be straight like pins, or curved like fibula.  They are made of metal and can have beads attached as a decoration.  

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
11209 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. With elongated knob head. Square in section above. Tip missing. Type I. [drawing]
11210 (none) (none) B17487 Copper Pin. With lapis lazuli ball head. Stem square in section at top and rounded below. Tip missing. Upper portion of stem is perforated for suspension. Type V. [drawing]
11224 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Plain tang head. Type I.
11226 (none) (none) B17492 Copper pin. Plain tang head. Type I.
11230E (none) (none) (none) Head Ornament. (A) Gold ribbon. (B) Wreath of carnelian & lapis lazuli beads with gold mulberry leaf pendants. (C) [C.1-.2] Pair large lunate gold earrings. (D) Silver head ornament with inlaid rosette finials-gold, silver & shell. (E) [E and K] 2 silver pins with bent heads capped by a lapis ball head. Type VI. (F) Necklace of fluted lapis ball beads. (G) Frontlet of beads in 7 rows, gold, bugle, carnelian ring beads, lapis bugles. (H) Necklace of lapis & gold triangles. (I) Necklace of alternate lapis & silver double conoids. (J) Miniature vase of light drab clay, part of rim missing.
11413A (none) (none) (none) (A) Copper Pin. (B) Copper finger ring plain wire ring with overlapping ends. (C) Silver finger ring the bezel straight: made of double wire with ends overlapping.
11421 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. Plain, with spike head.
11433 (none) (none) (none) Copper pin. Plain tang head. [Type] I.
11439A (none) (none) (none) Cylinder seal & pin. [A] Copper pin with plain tang head stem thickened & pierced near top. [B] To this was attached a cylinder seal of brown clay with a scene of 2 men fighting animals, roughly engraved.
11452D 30-12-367 (none) B18086 Group. Consisting of [A] (1) a cylinder seal of red baked clay with white slip: in poor condition but interesting for its fabric. It is attached to part of a copper pin. Inscription EN-dUtu(?); [B] (2) a few beads of lapis and silver, mixed types; [C] (3) a silver hair-ring, 5 spiral coils of thin wire; [D] (4) a copper pin, point missing.
11470A 30-12-365.2 (none) (none) [A-B] 2 Copper pins. Corroded together. One square in cross section with tang head, one round in section with no head. Type IX.
11490A (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin [A]& cylinder seal. [B] Copper pin plain, tang head (tang) broken), to whcih was attached a small white shell cylinder seal with design of a palm tree on one side of which 2 rampant lions, on the other apparently a winged bull (?) the surface very much decayed.
11502 30-12-377 (none) B18096 Copper Pin. Plain. [Type] IX.
11532 30-12-383 (none) B18102 Copper Pin. Plain spike head. [Type] I.
11536 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. With fluted lapis ball head set in gold. [Type] V.
11552 (none) (none) (none) Gold Pin. With lapis ball head set in gold. Type I (new)
11553 (none) (none) (none) Gold Pin. With fluted lapis ball head. Type I (new)
11597C (none) (none) (none) Group. [A](1) Shell, cut as a lamp & engraved with the head & neck of a bird (the eye orginally inlaid but inlay is missing) [drawing] [B](2) Copper Dagger (broken). Type IV; [C](3) Copper pin with lapis ball head (broken)[Type] V.
11707 30-12-366 (none) (none) Copper Pin. Plain tang head.
11710A 30-12-390 (none) B18109 Group. (A) Copper Pin with fluted head (broken) (B) A quantity of lapis double conoid beads.; (C) Cockle shells with green & blue paint.
11726 (none) (none) (none) Gold Pin with plain lapis ball head capped with gold.
11775 (none) (none) (none) Copper Pin. With lapis ball head striated & capped with gold. Type V.B.
11826A (none) (none) (none) Group of Copper Objects. Oxidized together. [A] (1) Copper Pin; type I. [B] (2) Copper Bowl: hemispherical. [C] (3) Copper Tumbler(?) or box(?) (the top not visible, being inside the bowl).
11835 (none) (none) (none) [A] Silver Pin. With plain lapis ball head and [B, C] a pair of hair-rings, spiral coils of silver wire, each hair-ring, 2 spirals interlaced.
11842C (none) (none) (none) Copper Tools, etc. (A) Copper Axe, type IX (B) Pin, plain head (C) Pin, plain tang head.

Child Terms

Fibulae - Pins