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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy hooked tag of Early-Medieval/Late Anglo-Saxon date. It is missing the hook due to old breaks. The plate is flat, oval shaped in form and with projecting semi-circular attachment knops/sewing loops at the top separated by a central triangular projection. The attachment knops have central circular apertures or sewing holes. On the front face the object is decorated with a border of punched/drilled circles that surrounds the outer edge of the plate as well as completely covering the attachment knops and triangular projection. At its centre the plate is unevenly finished and it is uncertain whether there were originally additional decorative elements here. The back face is flat and undecorated with a slight rectangular groove where the now missing hook was originally attached. It measures 16.82mm in length, 13.86mm in width, 1.34mm in thickness, and weighs 1.32g.This is a hooked tag belonging in Read's Early-Medieval Classes D or E, with a similar parallel published by him from Cambridgeshire (Read, 2008: no. 135). It dates to between the 9th and 12th centuries AD.
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