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Description: | A probable cast copper-alloy hooked tag, which is an elongated sub-triangle in plan. The tip is particular slender and curls backwards to form the hook. The narrow edge of the hook is a broken edge. The front of the tag is decorated with a border of oval shaped annulets with a central lozenge shape in the centre, within which is another oval annulet. The reverse is undecorated. The object has a light grey/green shiny patina, and measures 18.73mm long and 12.76mm wide at most. It weighs 0.7g. Early-medieval hooked tags are hard to date, being found in contexts from the seventh to the eleventh centuries. Hinton (in Biddle, M (ed.) 1990 Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester Volume II Oxford, Clarendon Press) illustrates similar long triangular hooked tags, with straight tops and no decoration, and dates these to the eleventh century. Webster and Backhouse (Webster, L. and Backhouse, J. 1991 The Making of England: Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900 University of Toronto Press) illustrate decorated hooked tags, No. 200 which is dated to the second half of the 9th century.
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