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Description: | Middle/Late Saxon hooked tag with shield-shaped plate pierced by two attachment holes, one incomplete and broken through to the nearest top corner. Two small cut-outs decorated the centre of the top edge. The centre of the plate roughly oval patch of niello, now dull grey in colour is inlaid with loops of silver wire. The remainder of the surface is taken up with stamped flat-base dots. Only the top of the hook is extant. At a slight collar it is decorated with a horizontal engraved line above and below a chevron. 9th ? 10th century. | 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: | 800
1000 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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