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Description: | A lead alloy hooked tag which is post medieval. It is 27.2mm long, 17.7mm wide and 7mm thick. The tag has a rectangular plate with large beadwork round the edge and a raised rectangle in the centre. Hidden behind the plate on the reverse is a rectangular loop at one end of the plate, and the stub of a projecting hook at the other. The lead thickens round the hook stub, and there is a tiny fragment of a dark brown patinated copper alloy, so in this example the hook was copper alloy. Only the part of the hook which was encased in lead alloy has survived. The lead has a deep cream coloured patina. Hooked tags of this style seem to date from the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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