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Description: | A complete copper alloy hooked tag dating to the early-medieval period. The hooked tag has a circular plate with two protruding rounded pierced lobes above for attachment. The edge of the plate is decorated with a linear border with multiple transverse lines within, giving the effect of a ladder or rope pattern. Inside the border, the plate is divided into three fields by the same rope or ladder pattern arranged in a Y shape; the fields created by this division are undecorated. The integral hook survives complete; it is bent backwards and tapers to a sharp point. At the top of the hook is a flat trapezoidal plate, below which is a small moulded collar above the hook itself, which immediately starts to taper. The hook is D-shaped in cross-section, being flat on its inside surface. The reverse of the plate is undecorated. This hooked tag can be classified as Read (2008) early-medieval Class E Type 1.Discussion: Hooked tags were in use from the second half of the 7th to the 11th century AD. They were probably all-purpose fastenings used to secure clothing, purses, etc. There are several well-known and usually well-made silver hooked tags with fields divided by ladder-pattern. The division into three panels was a style in use broadly during the 9th century AD. Parallels in silver include Read (2008) no 129 and stylistically no 113. Most tend to have three fields divided by a Y shape as seen on this example; examples on the PAS database include KENT-E9F568 and CAM-C7ECC4. It is likely that the Wallingford hooked tag copies these silver examples.
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