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Description: | A triangular copper-alloy hooked tag of early-medieval date. The tag has been cut from a sheet, with the apex of the triangle recurved to form the (now bent) hook. The flat object has been pierced twice with two circular, unaligned attachment holes at the wider end; the right hand of these when viewing the object with the upper surface of the attachment end uppermost has abraded through the edge. The attachement end is cusped with two incurving removals. There is a ?double ridge as the hook begins. The field above on the upper surface has been affected by corrosion and no decoration is discernible, although similar artefacts were often plain (cf. Biddle 1990, 550; fig. 148). The object has corroded to a dull red-brown colour with areas of light green bronze disease. Hooked tags such as this could date from the 7th to 11th centuries; a slightly more refined range is suggested based on Winchester finds in the volume quoted above. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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