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Description: | Copper alloyHooked Tag. Oval sheet metal plate with a tapered pointed hook bent back at its end. A pair of drilled holes of diameter 3.2mm is set close to the edge opposite the hook. Read Early Medieval Class A Type 2. 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: 19.1mm, Width: 11mm, Thickness: 0.6mm, Weight: 0.37gms
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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