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Description: | A copper-alloy hooked tag, this tag measures 16.5mm in length and 11mm in width it has been created from sheet copper-alloy. The plate of this tag is flat oval in shape measuring 10mm in lenght and 11mm in width. On the front face of this plate traces of a white metal coating can be seen. The plate has two parallel circular perforations near to its top edge. The hook is rectangular in plan and tapers to a point, its tip is now missing due to an old break, it curves backwards gently. Its front face is convex and back face flat. Similar hooked tags have been found at Coddenham, Suffolk and at Norwich (Margeson 1993, 17, figure 8), they are believed to be mid to late Anglo-Saxon in date. | 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: | 600
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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