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Description: | A copper-alloy hooked tag 30mm in length. The plate is oval, 16mm in width and 17mm in length. The front has a circular central panel, 7mm in diameter, decorated with simple scrolls and annulets in silver wire and niello. The edge of the plate is decorated with semi-circular knops, each with a circular indentation in its centre. On the top edge there are two projecting circular loops. The hook is incomplete and 12mm in length; it is decorated with two transverse grooves halfway down its length. The reverse of the hooked tag is flat and undecorated. A similar hooked tag was discovered at Barham, Suffolk; it has the same decoration and shape, although it is slightly larger. This parallel is believed to be a dress fastener and is Anglo-Saxon in date (West 1998, p7, and p121, Fig 5, No, 36). Thomas (1996) has dated strap-ends with similar silver wire decoration to the 9th century AD.
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