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Description: | An incomplete Anglo-Saxon hooked tag circa 700-1100 in date. It is incomplete as on sewing lug and the hook are now missing due to old rbeaks. The surviving plate is roughly triangular in shape measuring 28.45mm in length and 22.22mm in width. There are two projecting sewing lobes with a circular hole through their centres on the upper edge.
The front face is decorated with a border of transverse grooves, the plate is then divided by a central longitudinal row of transverse grooves and two diagonal rows of transverse grooves, which run from halfway up the central row and terminate beneath either sewing lobe.
There are two lower opposing larger fields and two upper opposing smaller fields created between the rows tranverse grooves. Each of the smaller upper triangular shaped fields have border grooves and a pair of transverse grooves across their centres, the grooves are filled with a white material.
The lower larger triangular fields each have a probably chip-carved design which appears to depict a beast with a long neck and large eye viewed in side profile, the heads of these beasts face each other. Again the grooves around the beasts are filled with a white material.
There are tiny traces of white metal coating on both faces. | 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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