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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy hooked tag of Early-Medieval date. It has a flat sub-oval shaped plate that tapers towards a hooked terminal at the base and has two projecting lobes on the top edge. Each of the lobes has a circular sewing hole to enable attachment of the hooked tag to an article of clothing. The front face of the plate has incised decoration comprising a border formed from single grooves that run along each side of the plate from the sewing holes to the hook. Within the border is an additional area of incised decoration in the form of an inverted Y-shaped motif extending from the upper edge of the plate between the sewing holes to the grooved border at the sides. This is formed from incised lines with chip carved semi-circles along their inner edges to give the central areas of the inverted Y a slightly wavy appearance. At the base of the plate is an integrally cast hooked terminal, which is rectangular in form, tapering slightly towards its tip, which curved backwards and terminates in a sharp point. The front face of the hook is slightly thicker than the remainder of the plate and is decorated with two parallel transverse grooves at the join of hook and plate. The back face of the of the tag is flat and undecorated. It measures 27.79mm in length (including hook), 14.89mm in width, 1.01mm in thickness at plate, 1.59mm in thickness at hook, and weighs 1.57g.This is a cast copper-alloy hooked tag of Early-Medieval date. The presence of a sub-oval shaped plate with lobate sewing holes at the top edge and a sharp hooked terminal indicate that this probably belongs to Read's Early-Medieval Class D Type 1 hooked tags (Read, 2008: pp. 27-29). This indicates a probable date range in the 9th-12th centuries AD.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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