Record ID: WAW-29AC50
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A gilded silver composite hooked tag; the back plate is trifoliate in plan with notches around the edge. The reverse of the plate has damage where the loop was originally attached and is now missing. There is also on the lower lobe a discolouration where the separate hook was originally positioned and has recently fallen off. The hook, however, is not missing. It is a sub-U shape in profile, has a circular section, with one terminal tapering to a sharp point, the other flattened and originally soldered to the back plate. The outer face of the back plate has a large hemispherical boss …
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Last updated: Monday 17th January 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-F25185
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE 2012 T184. Tiny silver hooked tag with a circular undecorated plate c. 10mm in diameter. There are two small circular attachment holes close to each other near the top; these have raised edges around them on the reverse, suggesting that they were bored or drilled through from the front. The hook at the bottom is thicker, with a distinct step on the front but a smooth junction on the reverse. It bends backwards but the tip is missing. 16.0mm long, 10.25mm wide, plate 0.5mm thick. Weight: 0.4g. Early-medieval hooked tags range in date the 7th to the 11th centuries, b…
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F575C7
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2012 T149. Description: Middle or Late Anglo-Saxon hooked tag made from gilded silver. The tag has a flat, broadly circular plate with eight semi-circular lobes forming a scalloped edge; some of the lobes have rather angular corners rather than being smoothly curved. At the top, three of the lobes are pierced by circular attachment holes for attachment, and opposite them at the bottom is an integral complete sharp backward-curving hook. The plate is decorated on the front with an engraved design forming an elaborate cross-and-circle motif. In the centre of the cros…
Created on: Thursday 1st March 2012
Last updated: Thursday 20th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wells', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-CD8D98
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2012 T146. Description: Gilded silver hooked tag with zoomorphic decoration. The tag has a flat oval plate with two projecting flat semi-circular lugs at the top, and opposite them an integral backward-turned hook. The lugs are pierced with circular holes, and slight raised rims around the holes on the reverse suggest they were drilled into the plate from the front. The plate is decorated on the front with an incised design within an undecorated border separated from the central design by a groove. In the very centre is a tiny Greek cross formed from a groove, wi…
Created on: Tuesday 28th February 2012
Last updated: Thursday 20th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Evercreech', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-609046
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver hooked tag of sub-triangular form with two attachment holes, the decoration on the plate originally inlaid with niello, and the upper right-hand corner broken away. The decoration consists of a lobed and scrolled foliate design around a central 'V'-shaped motif, with a lightly ribbed border on the two longer sides. The back is plain. Discussion: The hooked tag is a typical example of a well-known class of later 8th- and 9th-century allpurpose fastening used to secure clothing (including gartering), and purses and small bags. The lobed leaf and pendant scrolls of this piece reca…
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2012
Last updated: Monday 1st October 2012
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Record ID: NMS-3D39A7
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle to late Anglo-Saxon sheet silver hooked tag. Sub-circular plate (broader than it is long) with two circular attachment holes. No decoration, but oblique file or scratch marks on the front. Complete hook. 18 x 12.5mm. Weight 0.44g. Read 2008 early medieval Class A Type 2. 8th - 11th century.
Created on: Thursday 9th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Narford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D8E657
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gilded silver composite dress hook. Trefoil back-plate cusped around the edge supporting three hemispherical bosses, each with a filigree wire circle around the base, and three large filigree wire circles on their surface. Within and between each circle is a pellet surrounded by a small filigree wire circle, some of which are missing. There is a further pellet at the top of each dome between the three larger circles. A separate un-gilded silver octofoil disc at the centre of the three bosses is secured by a gilded dome-headed butterfly clip through the back-plate. There …
Created on: Monday 23rd January 2012
Last updated: Monday 17th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-EC6878
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver hooked tag with circular panel decorated with a Trewhiddle-style animal. The hooked tag has a basically circular plate with rounded projections set rather low at the upper corners, each perforated with a circular sewing hole. The hook at the bottom is small and missing its tip, with a fairly worn break. It has a little flat rounded lobe to either side where the hook meets the plate. The circular panel is set inside an undecorated frame, and the decoration has been engraved. Some niello survives; where it has been lost there is a lot of soil adhering, but in a fe…
Created on: Thursday 12th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Luton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-C6F6D4
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A post medieval silver gilt hooked tag. The body of the tag contains three panels, creating with the back a hollow trapezoidal section. Each of the panels is decorated with three domed circles within beaded borders in a row with pairs of smaller raised circular knops between. Each panel is separated by a linear border. On the two longer outer edges are frilled border extensions. The integral hook projects from one of the short edges and it partially covered from the front by a now broken fleur-de-lis. The hook is complete but slightly bent at the tip. The other side of the body of the…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 15th April 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-2EB3D3
Object type: HOOKED TAG
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case 2012 T4: Disclaimed, returned to finder Description: Silver gilt hooked tag, with a tri-lobed central section from which the hook and loop, now missing, would have projected. The central section has a flat tri-lobed back and convex front formed of three circular domes, two to the top and one between to the bottom, with an additional flower decoration in the centre. The outer edge of the back plate is serrated, with pointed indents. In the spandrels between each lobe is a small circular projecting tab with a central pierced hole. A twisted wire border runs around the ba…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd January 2012
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Highbridge', grid reference and parish protected.