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Description: | Description: A silver early-medieval hooked tag. The plate is flat and broadly circular, but has been damaged and is now bent along a line across the centre. It has two circular attachment holes 1.69mm from the top of the object, both set in rounded projecting lobes. The right-hand hole is intact, but the left has been damaged and is now broken through. Along the top of the plate, between the two projecting lobes, is a line of beading which has been trimmed to a curve.The plate is divided into three by lines of rather crude beading each set in a broad groove; together the three lines form a Y shape, and at the centre of this is a cinquefoil flower motif. The three panels between the lines are each filled with relief decoration. The two lower panels have similar interlace designs, and the upper panel has what appears to be two plant stems, one ending in a sub-triangular leaf. The panels are all surrounded by reserved borders; these plain reserved areas extend down to the hook and are in turn surrounded by an outer border of crude squarish beading which runs around the edge of the plate. A small area of this beading is missing close to the damaged left-hand attachment hole.The hook extends from the bottom of the plate without any break in the decoration; the beaded border runs a little way down either side of the top of the hook. The hook curves backwards behind the tag and the tip is missing. The breaks are old.Dimensions: The tag measures 18.37mm in length, 14.93mm at its widest point and 1.61mm at its narrowest point. The hook measures 6.22mm in length. It weighs 0.92g.Discussion and Date: This hooked tag fits well into a group with three panels of decoration. They range from very fine silver examples, such as those from Kent published by Graham-Campbell (1982), to cruder copper-alloy ones, e.g. NMS-DF4534. Several follow the scheme of having two lower identically decorated panels and a different upper panel. Many have Trewhiddle-style animals dating them to the 9th century AD.
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