Silver, 2.72 grams, 21.53 mm. 8th century AD. The plate is decorated with a Trewhiddle Style foliate motif consisting of four cruciform lobes each with two lunulate panels; between these are four oval lobes with oval panels, with six pellets among them. The tag is made from two plates soldered along the centre and split at the upper edge where the three attachment points are pierced through the scalloped edge. Reference: West. S. A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998 p.214 fig.20. Extremely fine condition. Property of a gentleman, believed to have been found in Hertfordshire in the early 1990's. This item is accompanied by a XRF ancient metal test certificate from Oxford X-ray Fluorescence Ltd.