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Description: | Description: An incomplete Anglo-Saxon silver hooked tag with a flat circular plate. The front of the circular plate has a scalloped edge, and is decorated with a geometric pattern enclosed within a circular border ridge. Within this are four relief-decorated fields with grooves forming a saltire cross between. Each of the four fields has an inner relief triangle and a border groove around an outer relief shape. The effect is of a circle divided by a saltire cross, perhaps made up of interlacing ridges. The lowest field has a projection below it which is followed and enclosed by the outer border ridge and the scalloped edge. From this projects a complete tapering bent-under sharp hook, now bent slightly to one side. At the top of the plate the scalloped edge is interrupted by two circular perforated attachment loops, one now broken and the other worn very thin.Dimensions: length: 22.95mm; width: 13.22mm; thickness: 0.78mm; weight: 0.62g.Discussion: Hooked tags were used, probably for a variety of purposes, from the second half of the 7th to the 11th centuries. This design on this one is unusual and not precisely paralleled on any other example, although several individual features can be matched on other hooked tags; the diagonal cross comes in many forms (e.g. SWYOR-7F3E17, KENT-6B9336 and SOM-CD8D98) and the scalloped or multi-lobed edge is also found on 9th-century examples, normally coupled with inlaid silver wire scrolls (e.g. NMS-D71814, SF-DC3B75 and LIN-C87377). Date: The parallels cited largely date from the 9th to 11th centuries, and a similar date is appropriate for this hooked tag.
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