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Description: | Cast copper alloy hooked tag with an irrgularly shapped central plate, a U shaped hook bent over to one side and a rectangular attachment loop opposite the hook. The front of the tag is decorated with a central berry like motif above leaves and a flower with circular openwork to the sides; the edges curve around the seperate circular openwork holes giving an irregular shape. It measures 32.68 x 16.33mm and 1.98mm thick; weight 2.2gms. In: ??Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition??, Egan (2005, p.42) suggests that single hooked tags were thought to have been used in pairs on the ends of short chains or straps. Their function was probably joining subsidiary, decorative accessories together or onto a main garment, strap or the like. The tag is very similar to his object 153, p44, which is incomplete. Object 153 was recovered with ceramics dated to c. 1575-c.1600 (with some intrusive material). Based on the possible close dating of this parallel, the hooked tag described in this record is likely to be post medieval, dating from c.1550-c1625. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Taylor, Jeff | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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