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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy Late Early-Medieval (900-1050) Hooked tag with silvering and niello decoration, belonging to Read's Early-Medieval Class C, single sharp-hooked clasps, and missing the tip of the hook. It measures 35.31x15.29x4.83mm and weighs 2.78g.The fastener is triangular in shape with two attachment holes at the wider end, c.2mm in diameter. At the opposite end, at the juncture between plate and hook, is a ridged zoomorphic collar with raised nose and brow line, incised pointed-oval eyes and ears curving upwards and outwards. Incised lines detail two pointed oval eyes with a triangle above and between. The incomplete hook projects beak-like from the end, D-shaped in cross-section (3.18x1.74), c.4mm long and breaking at the curve (1.22mm diameter).The plate is decorated to the front with a border of raised triangles around a panel of Winchester-style symmetrical foliate decoration and inlaid between with niello (much of this is now missing). In addition, the surface carries traces of silvering. This silvering is also apparent on the plain, flat reverse, where it is almost intact.Cf. Read 2008 p.23 no.103, which is also SOMDOR1161 on this database, HAMP-7F0742 and WILT-477136. Winchester style is 10th century in date. Read suggests this class of hooked tag extend into the 11th century.
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