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Description: | A copper-alloy hooked tag, a long trapezoid in shape. Integral to the lower, most narrow edge there is an off-set hook, which is curled towards the reverse of the object. The opposite, upper edge has a small hole in each corner. One hole is incomplete due to damage. The front and reverse is undecorated. The tag has been made from sheet copper alloy rather than cast copper alloy. The object has a mid green patina, and measures 19.87mm long and 11.3mm wide at most. It weighs 0.5g. Early-medieval hooked tags are hard to date, being found in contexts from the seventh to the eleventh centuries. Hinton (in Biddle, M (ed.) 1990 Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester Volume II Oxford, Clarendon Press) illustrates similar triangular hooked tags, with straight tops and no decoration, and dates these to the eleventh century (nos. 1415 and 1417 in particular).
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