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HOOKED TAG
Unique ID: SUSS-E0DA5E
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a silver early medieval hooked tag. The fragment comprises part of the top of the plate, which judging by its tapering shape was originally triangular in form. It preserves two broken attachment holes in the corners, now mostly lost, with a wide plain border incised around them. The border continues around the surviving edge of the plate, where it is incised to resemble beading. The motif decorating the main part of the plate is too broken to identify, but resembles a symmetrical design of two triangles pointing in from the rivet holes and meeting beneath a small central triangle, pointing up. The two larger triangles have a smaller incised triangle within each, which is itself bisected lengthways by an incised line. There are curving, possibly zoomorphic, features to either side of the center, perhaps forming legs. These areas are speckled. The rear of the object is undecorated.
Notes:
Though very incomplete, the surviving part of the object suggests strongly that it derives from a triangular hooked tag rather than a strap-end, as no sign of a split end for taking the strap is visible. A broadly similar example recorded on the PAS database is KENT-609046. Hooked tags with sub-triangular plates have been dated from the ninth century onwards, which would also fit with the Trewhiddle Style decoration preserved on the plate.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2017T967
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Saxon style
Date from: Circa AD 800
Date to: Circa AD 950
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 11.171 mm
Width: 16.42 mm
Thickness: 1.01 mm
Weight: 1.04 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 19th October 2016
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Other reference numbers
Treasure case number: 2017T967
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Fragment
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: West Sussex (County)
District: Chichester (District)
To be known as: Near Chichester
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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