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Description: | Anglo-Saxon silver hooked tag, fragment missing. The piece is of sheet metal, with twin attachment lugs at one end and a hook at the other. It has a sub-circular plate, with a plain border widening to form a plain collar for the hook. The decoration consists of a Trewhiddle-style backward-looking animal, with typical notches on its body. From the open mouth there is a bifurcated tongue which works as space-filler. The main forelimb is quite heavy and wedge-shaped. It slants forward, bends and thins to create a strand of interlace which enmeshes with that from the deeply notched hind leg, to fill the lower part of the field. To the right of the animal another strand of interlace is enmeshed with another forelimb. This piece is a fine example of a type of functional ornament commonly found in Anglo-Saxon England, serving a variety of purposes, from attaching garters to acting as fasteners for purses. They were produced between the seventh and late medieval time, but the decoration on this piece puts it clearly in the ninth century.
See L Webster and J Backhouse (eds.) The Making of England (London 1991), nos. 196-200
Width: 20mm; length: 20.9mm; weight: 2.2g. X-ray flourescence analysis conducted at the British Museum indicated an approximate silver content of 95 per cent. | Subjects: | Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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