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Early Medieval hooked tag
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme, Edward Caswell, 2020-02-27 10:19:55
Title
Early Medieval hooked tag
Description
English: A near complete cast copper-alloy hooked tag dating to the Early-Medieval period, c. 750-900 AD.

The artefact has a sub-rectangular (almost oval) main body with very rounded corners. From the top two corners project two semi circular knops. Each of these knops is pierced by a hole (c. 1.7mm diameter) used for attaching the fastener.

At the opposite end of the tag, its base, extends a small trapezoidal projecting plate from the end of which projects a tapering curving hooked element. This hook projects 7.9mm before curves backwards over itself slightly before terminating in a worn break.

The front of the main body of the plate has incised zoomorphic decoration following Stalin’s style 1 of disjointed and scattered animals parts including legs, tails, bodies and at least one eye. The reverse is flat and plain.

The hooked tag is a light green colour

The artefact is 32.4mm long, 16.1mm wide, 1.1mm thick. It weighs 1.75 grams

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. The form of the hooked tag  corresponds to Read's (2008: 24) class D/1 being a flat plate with two attachment knops. A similar example with similar decoration is illustrated by Read (2008: 28, No.113) from Essex. Similar examples on the database include SF-CCF8E4, SF-9B5723, BUC-E824C2, NMS-B62A2C and BERK-126B30
Depicted place (County of findspot) Oxfordshire
Date between 750 and 900
Accession number
FindIdentifier: 995009
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The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/1094391
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1094391/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/995009
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