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Description: | A lead and copper-alloy wire hooked tag. The plate of this tag is made of lead and is lozenge shaped, it measures 23mm in height (its tip is missing due to an old break) and 26mm in width. The front face has moulded decoration consisting of a relief lozenge shape with a central cross and a hollow in each quadrant. The boarder of the plate has evenly spaced rounded knops. On the back face the plate is flat except for a transverse raised rectangular loop, which is now squashed flat. The wire hook has been pushed into a swollen longitudinal rectangular protrusion situated on the back face of the lower point of the lozenge shaped plate. The hook is 15mm in length and has a circular cross-section which measures 1.5mm in diameter. The hook curves backwards and tapers to a sharp point. This hooked tag is most likely to be post-medieval in date. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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