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Description: | Early medieval sheet copper alloy hooked tag. Pear shaped plate with hook extending from the apex, and two circular attachment holes at the opposite side. The obverse of the plate has very faint incuse decoration of a double beaded line cross within a beaded border; the reverse is undecorated. The hook is broken just after it turns. Mid green patina. Length 22.18mm, width 11.60mm, thickness (including broken hook) 3.68mm, thickness (across plate) 0.75mm, weight 0.54g.
Hinton notes that hooked tags were introduced in the 7th century and remained in use until the 11th century (1996, The Gold Silver and other Non-Ferrous Alloy Objects from Hamwic, Stroud, pp10-11). MacGregor and Bollick note that hooked tags continue 'up to at least the fourteenth century' and that 'later examples are generally of cast construction and more robust in manufacture' [than the early sheet ones they publish] (1993, 'A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections', BAR 230, Oxford, p190). This example is probably mid-late early medieval. | 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 | Creator: | Rachel Atherton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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