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Description: | Incomplete late Medieval cast copper alloy two piece hooked tag. It consists of a circular tag the front decorated with a six-petalled double rose within a linear border. The outer petals resemble crowns. Only stubs remains of the rectangular loop which projected from one side of the tag. The reverse is plain with with a cylindrical section at the side opposite the loop which holds the remains of a seperate, embedded iron hook. It is 15.0mm long, 12.8mm wide and 1.4mm thick, 3.1mm including the remains of the hook; it weighs 126 grams.Read (2008) illustrates a seemingly identical hooked tag, p.126, no.514, which he classifys as Class K Type 2 and dates to c.1450-1500 AD.
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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