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Description: | Gilded copper-alloy hooked tag. The plate is long and triangular, and at the wider top is cut into three lobes. The two wider outer lobes are pierced for sewing; there are grooves between these and the narrower inner lobe which curve around the outer lobes before running down just inside the tapering straight edges to meet close to the bottom. The area thus enclosed is divided into two by a transverse groove. Above is an engraved square panel, with a line running inwards from the centre of each side nearly to the centre to form a quatrefoil. Below is a grooved triangle. At the very bottom the tag is extended and turned under to form a hook which is now incomplete. There are large areas of gilding surviving. Hooked tags were in use from the 7th to the 11th century, probably fulfilling various functions. This one is hard to date from the ornament alone, but probably does not belong to the first century of their use. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 750
1066 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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