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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy hooked tag (hook piece) of Post-Medieval date. It has a flat oval shaped plate with a transverse collar at one end that has an incised transverse groove. Beneath the collar extends an incomplete flat, rectangular hook piece that begins to curve forwards before terminating in old breaks. At the top and both sides of the plate are pointed, semi-circular lobes with circular sewing holes. The entire object is undecorated. It measures 40.11mm in length, 26.96mm in width, 1.93mm in thickness, and weighs 6.41g.This is a Post-Medieval hooked tag belonging to Read's Early Post-Medieval Class A Type 2 hooked tags, with close parallels noted from Somerset and Devon (Read, 2008: pp. 168-170, nos. 635-637). It is of 16th-17th century AD date.
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