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Description: | Description: A silver hooked tag of Early-Medieval date. The plate is flat and undecorated on both faces. It is roughly circular in shape, c. 11.1mm in diameter, and is 0.35mm thick. There are two circular perforations through the plate fairly close together at the top, near the edge opposite to the hook.. The circular-section hook has a bent-back tip; the very end appears to be missing. It protrudes 6.9mm outwards from the plate, and is 1.36mm thick at the top, smoothly tapering to 1.05mm.Dimensions: The object measures in all 17.4mm x 11.1mm x 1.45mm and weighs 0.37g.Discussion and Date: Hooked tags with perforations within the plate are a well known early-medieval object type. Hooked tags with circular plates are known from the 8th to 11th centuries, and the lack of decoration on this one means that a more precise date is difficult to assign. Compare ESS-F25185, another entirely undecorated silver hooked tag with two perforations within the plate.
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