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Description: | An incomplete Anglo-Saxon silver hooked tag, missing the top part of the plate (with attachment holes) and the lower part of the hook. The remaining portion of the plate has convex sides which curve towards the stepped hook and it seems likely that the object was originally circular or semi-circular. The upper surface of the plate bears a flat border, decorated with a line of tiny punched dots, around a sunken field filled with a roughly symmetrical pattern of foliate interlace in counter-relief. There are further dots on the strands of interlace, which appears to be in a debased Trewhiddle style, with a triangular leaf with rounded terminal clearly visible in one place. Dots (known as 'speckling') are characteristic of this broadly 9th-century decorative style. All of the sunken areas appear to have been keyed, and it is possible that this hooked tag originally had niello inlay surrounding the silver. At the top of the hook is an incised rectangle with a dot inside each corner and a second, larger rectangle surrounding it. The reverse is undecorated, but has several scratches running at right angles to each other.
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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