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Description: | A incomplete sheet copper-alloy early-medieval hooked tag. Only the plate of this hooked tag now survives, the hook is missing due to an old break.
The plate is triangular, measuring 29.9mm in length and 20mm in width at its widest point, across the top edge of the plate. There are three circular sewing holes set parallel to and near to the top edge of the plate, each one about 1.5mm in diameter. The front face of the plate is decorated with a single border groove and within this a cross shape formed of a longitudinal row of six ring-and-dot motifs and a horizontal row of four ring-and-dot motifs. The back face is undecorated.
A triangular hooked tag with three sewing holes along its top edge has been discovered in Walsham Le Willows, Suffolk, although its decoration is much more elaborate and it is smaller in size (West 1998, 250, fig 132, no 7). Hooked tags came into use in the seventh century and went out of use in the eleventh. Large ones such as these probably date to the middle or late part of the Anglo-Saxon period, rather than to the earlier part. | 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: | 700
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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