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Description: | Copper alloyHooked Tag. Oval sheet metal plate with a tapered pointed hook, slightly bent back at its tip. An adjacent pair of holes of diameter 2.4mm are drilled close to the edge opposite the hook. Read Early Medieval Class A Type 2. Decoration of the diasplay face comprises a possibly rouletted cross (a series of V-shaped impressions) and a possibly similarly formed border, though here more heavily worn. Dave Haldenby has distinguished Viking Age pins from their Middle Saxon predecessors at Cottam, East Yorkshire, where a 'table tennis bat' form of flat pin head is especially characteristic of later material. However, this object was presented with hooked tags of possibly Middle Saxon form from the same closely defined location. With deference to Haldenby's work, a broader date range is accordingly suggested for this object, unfortunately straddling the Anglo-Saxon/Viking 'divide'. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 800-900.Length: 18.8mm, Width: 12.1mm, Thickness: 0.7mm, Weight: 0.48gms.
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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