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Description: | Composite lead-alloy hooked tag with trefoil back-plate supporting three hemispherical bosses, each decorated with three circles of filigree decoration and a central knop. A central sexfoil rosette is secured to the back-plate with a rivet, the split shank of which can be seen on the reverse; the head of the rivet forms the centre of the rosette. The hook and attachment loop are missing but there are marks where they would have been soldered to the rear of the back-plate. Length c.12mm; thickness 5.22mm, weight 1.57g.There are examples of similar hooked tags in gilded silver: see Treasure Annual Reports 2000, nos. 178 (Norfolk) and 180 (N. Yorks), and 2001, no. 148 (Norfolk); and Gaimster et al., 'Tudor silver-gilt dress-hooks: a new class of Treasure find in England', Antiquaries Journal, 82 (2002), pp. 157-96.
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