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Description: | Silver Anglo-Saxon hooked tag in two joining fragments. The larger fragment consists of the sub-circular plate with two holes for attachment. There are incised lines decorating the obverse side of the plate. The smaller fragment is the bottom of the plate and the hook. The may be a crude zoomorphic head where the hook joins the plate. Much of the hook is missing. Larger fragment: length 12.04mm, width 12.72mm, thickness 0.84mm, weight 0.45g. Smaller fragment: length 8.48mm, width 6.76mm, thickness 2.06mm, weight 0.22g. Overall original length c.19.7mm.The British Museum curator's report (Anna Gannon) is as follows:"2004 T351 Anglo-Saxon hooked tag in two adjoining pieces. The tag is silver, and its measures are: length: 20 mm approx.; width (at widest point): 7 mm; weight: 0.6g.The hooked tag consists of a squat ovoid head decorated with an incised pattern, which originally would have been inlaid with niello. Two attachment holes are placed close together at the top of the head. At the lower end of the piece, which narrows sharply in width to curve into the hook, the hook itself is strengthened by means of a thickening of the metal, resembling the zoomorphic profile usually seen on strap-ends of the time. The incised decoration belongs to the Ringerike style the reminiscent of the abstract shell-spiral ornament seen on the Sutton, Isle of Ely Brooch (BM 1951, 11-1,1)Hooked tags are a class of later 8th to 11th century and beyond all-purpose fastening used to secure clothing and purses. This find might be ascribed to the late 10th or 11th century."
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