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Description: | Chain of 9 links, each end attached to a hooked fastener. Each link is formed from a piece of flat copper-alloy strip 3.5 to 4.5 mm wide bent into an S shape. One half of the S is linked into both halves of the previous link; the other half links into one half of the previous link and one half of the next link. So each half passes through two link-halves, either from a single link or from two links. This makes a strong but not particularly flexible construction. The final link of course does not have a next link to be attached to, only one of the hooked fasteners. There is a good parallel to the construction (although it is in general smaller and finer) from Norwich (Margeson 1993, no. 78).
Both of the hooked fasteners are of rather crude manufacture. They are cut out of copper-alloy sheet; each has a sub-rectangular plate measuring 15 x 11 and 14 x 12 mm, and decorated with short grooves running in from all edges except the lower hooked edge. There is also a single oblique line running from the top left to bottom right. The top edge has a 5 mm long slot into which the final chain link fits, and the bottom edge has a projection 6 mm wide. On one fastener this is bent under to form a hook, which ends in a point behind the centre of the plate. On the other fastener the projection is unbent and the point is apparently broken off. The hooked fasteners look very much like the cast hooked tags in use in the 16th and early 17th centuries, but the decoration looks medieval - could they be precursors to the early post-medieval type? | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1400
1540 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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