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Description: | A cast copper-alloy hooked tag of Early-Medieval date. It has a flat oval shaped plate with integrally cast but incomplete hook at base and projecting sewing lugs/knops at the top. The lugs are semi-circular in form with central circular sewing hole that on the front face of the object are surrounded by incised borders. Between the two lugs the top of the plate has a pointed triangular edge. The front face of the plate has decoration comprising seven punched ring ad dot motifs, one of which is roughly central, the remaining six surrounding it. At the base of the plate is the integral hook, which is flat, rectangular in form and curves backwards to a tapering sharp point. The entire object measures 27.04mm in length, 17.84mm in width, 1.19mm in thickness and 1.78g in weight.This is an Anglo-Saxon hooked tag, the oval shaped plate and projecting attachment knops suggesting it belongs in Read's Class E type 1 Early-Medieval hooked tags (Read, 2008: p. 30, especially no. 126), with similar examples noted from elsewhere in Suffolk (e.g. SF-077A51 and SF9732). This suggests a date in the 9th-12th centuries AD for the current example. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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