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Description: | A copper-alloy hooked tag, a long triangle in shape. The apex is thickened and turned under to form the hook, and the wider end has a circular attachment hole in each corner. The edges are abraded, particularly the upper edge, and it is not clear if this was originally straight or shaped. The front of the tag is decorated with a border of small and widely spaced dots. The reverse is undecorated. The object has a blue/grey shiny patina, and measures 21.78mm long and 10.56mm wide at most. It weighs 0.41g.
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 (nos. 1415 and 1417 in particular). | 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
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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