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Description: | Complete cast copper alloy post-medieval hooked tag. This hooked tag is open worked and flat in section. The main body of the tag is formed from a trefoil, with three circular perforations. The uppermost perforation forms the fixing hole. This is now blocked with brown corrosion product and probably the remains of a copper alloy rivet. The trefoil sits upon a Y shaped neck that has a broad, square shaft. At the centre of the shaft is a corroded copper alloy rivet. Extending from the bottom of the shaft is the complete hook that curls towards the rear of the object. The object is abraded and the original surface is missing. It now has a mid green patina with patches of brown corrosion product to front and rear. There are slight traces of tinning or silvering to the front face. The hooked tag is 39.34mm long, 15.8mm wide across the trefoil, 8.16mm wide across the square neck, 1.86mm thick and weighs 3.06g. Though an exact parallel could not be found, hooked tags of the same date can be seen in Margeson, 1993, Norwich Households, figure 8. | 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: | 1600
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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