|
Date: |
|
Description: | Complete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon hooked tag. The tag has a flat, subcircular plate from which extends the complete integral hook, which tapers and curves back to the rear of the object. The circular plate is decorated with an incised motif of eight hollow sub oval segments radiating from a central, incised hollow circle. This gives the pattern a flower-like appearance. It is surrounded by a border of a single incised line at the edge of the plate. The incised lines may once have held black niello, but are now filled with soil. There are faint traces of silvering to the front face. The rear of the object is plain and the silvering is much more even and noticeable. The plate has two circular perforations for attachment at the top of the plate. The object is 26.56mm long, of which 8.8mm is the hook (not including the backward curve). It is 0.92mm thick and weighs 1.40g.
An Early Medieval hooked tag, though in silver, was reported as Treasure in 2003 and recorded as record PAS-E87CB3. For this record Susan Youngs of the British Museum commented that ??The use of niello, form and style of ornament confirm that this is an Anglo-Saxon dress tag of late 9th-century date. This roundel of formal stylised vegetable pattern is matched by one on the border of the great `Fuller Brooch?? where three other versions of the pattern are also employed (L Webster and J Backhouse, The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art (London, 1994), no.11). Such hooks could be used for leggings, veils and purse fastenings and are not uncommon finds, with two main types having either circular or triangular plates. It is noteworthy that this piece is linked by style and quality of execution to a major piece of the period??.
Another Treasure case of a hooked tag with a similar decoration is recorded under record ESS-2C8575. The vegetable pattern on the object recorded here, though clearly of a cruder quality and in copper alloy, clearly follows the same tradition. Following those examples, this hooked tag probably dates from the late 9th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | McDonald, Caroline - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
HOOKED TAG
Complete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon hooked…
-
HOOKED TAG
Complete copper alloy Anglo-Saxon hooked…
-
HOOKED TAG
Complete silver Anglo-Saxon hooked tag.…
-
HOOKED TAG
Complete silver Anglo-Saxon hooked tag.…
-
-
-
-
hooked tag
Pocklington, East Yorkshire: Anglo-Saxon silver…
-
HOOKED TAG
Anglo-Saxon hooked tag, circular panel…
-
HOOKED TAG
Anglo-Saxon hooked tag, circular panel…
|