Record ID: SF-544A88
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy hooked tag with thin circular plate, decorated with an engraved diagonal cross; there are also hints of a possible zig-zag around the edge of the plate. There are two circular attachment holes at the top and a broken hook at the bottom. The hook has a wide rectangular lobe at the top and the break is worn to a sharp point. Hooked tags of this type were in use from the 7th to the 11th century.
Created on: Friday 4th July 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Coddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8362
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy hooked tag. The plate is long and triangular, and at the wider top is cut into three lobes. The two wider outer lobes are pierced for sewing; there are grooves between these and the narrower inner lobe which curve around the outer lobes before running down just inside the tapering straight edges to meet close to the bottom. The area thus enclosed is divided into two by a transverse groove. Above is an engraved square panel, with a line running inwards from the centre of each side nearly to the centre to form a quatrefoil. Below is a grooved triangle. At the ver…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7803
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible hooked tag, or model to have been used in the manufacture of a hooked tag; but this identification is very uncertain and other interpretations of this object are also possible. It is a thin, flat, sub-triangular piece of lead alloy, which flares from a broken apex to two further corners, and then continues straight for a little distance until this edge also is broken. It is possible that the original shape was lozengiform. The front is decorated with three lines of pellets which run parallel to the two complete edges; as these turn the corner at the apex there is some confu…
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7483
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Triangular hooked tag made from copper alloy. 16.5 mm wide at the top and 22.5 mm long, the sharp apex is turned under to form a small hook. There are two circular sewing holes set well in from the top corners. The tag is decorated with a vertical line of rectangular punchmarks, which runs right from the top between the holes down to the apex. This is crossed by a similar line across the top above the holes. Each side has two widely spaced similar lines which run up to the central vertical line. The punchmarks are all so neatly placed that it seems likely that they were made by ro…
Created on: Wednesday 28th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6134
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small silver hooked tag with circular plate and missing hook. The plate is 12 mm in diameter, undecorated, and has two sewing holes. A small stub of the hook survives. Such a small simple hooked tag may date from any time from the seventh to the eleventh centuries. (Subsequent note: this is almost certainly the same item as that published without illustration in the Treasure Act Annual Report 2001, no. 58, p. 41 (Treasure number M&ME 413). It was found upon XRF analysis to be a copper, lead and tin alloy and therefore not to be Treasure).
Created on: Monday 18th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 30th August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ALDERTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5711
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy hooked tag with sub-circular plate, two broken loops and a large hook. The plate is decorated with two engraved circles with fine radiating grooves both between the circles and within the inner circle. The engraving is not done particularly neatly. At the top of the plate are two projecting pierced lugs, both now broken; the breaks seem quite fresh but the metal is extremely thin here and it is hard to be certain. At the bottom is a much thicker hook, which tapers downwards before bending under to form the hook. Anglo-Saxon, probably middle or late.
Created on: Monday 4th June 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5272
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small flimsy hooked tag made of copper alloy. The plate is circular and has two slightly asymmetrically set circular attachment holes near to the top edge. The plate is 10 mm wide and the only decoration is a white-metal coating on the front surface. At the bottom is a long hook; as this turns backwards only at right angles, it is probably either bent or incomplete. Total length 18 mm.
Created on: Friday 20th April 2001
Last updated: Wednesday 21st November 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4608
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hooked tag made from a piece of thin copper-alloy sheet. It has a straight-cut top with a sewing hole in each corner, meaning that it must date to the Anglo-Saxon period. The other sides are curved down to a projecting tapering turned-under hook, which is relatively long (7 mm from bend to tip) for hooked tags of this period. The plate is corroded, but decoration of at least seven irregularly set ring-and-dot motifs can be seen; one is so close to a sewing hole that the dot has broken away into the hole. The dimensions (width 17 mm, plate length 16 mm, overall length 22 mm) are com…
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4175
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy hooked tag with circular plate. The plate is decorated with two concentric engraved circles; between are 7 unevenly spaced ring-and-dot motifs and in the centre is a decorative perforation. There are two small sewing holes towards the top, one of which cuts one of the ring-and-dot motifs. The hook projects from the bottom and has lost its tip.
Created on: Friday 8th December 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3981
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy hooked tag made from a piece of triangular sheet decorated with ring-and-dot motifs. Along the top are three ring-and-dots which have central circular perforations for attaching the tag. Below is a wobbly row of three more, then two irregularly stamped pairs, then a single one. The narrow apex of the tag is now bent out of shape, but would originally have been bent under to form a sharp hook. Original length probably c. 33 mm, maximum width 19 mm. Hooked tags were used by the Anglo-Saxons from the 7th to the 11th century and are hard to date, but such a large one…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WETHERINGSETT CUM BROCKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3692
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Triangular hooked tag made from thin dark (almost black) copper-alloy sheet. The top is 14 mm wide and has two rounded lobes, each with a central lozengiform attachment hole. The whole of the plate, including the rounded lobes, is covered with repousse dots; these roughly form borders to the holes and a border to the plate, plus a ring of dots in the middle around a central dot. At the bottom, the apex of the triangle is extended and bent under to form a fragile but complete hook. Length 20 mm.
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.