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Description: | A Post Medieval cast copper alloy hooked tag. The central plate is circular, slightly concave on the back and has a moulded front with a raised design of the sacred monogram 'ihs' with a pellet above and below surrounded by an outer cabled border. There is a trapezoidal attachment loop to one side of the plate. On the opposite side is a backwards curving hook that has been bent to one side as a result of old damage. The hook and loop are D shaped in cross-section with a flat back. The lettering is the right way up when the attachment loop is at the top and the hook at the bottom. It is 33.05mm long, 14.2mm wide and 2.1mm thick; it weighs 1.94 grams. Read (2008: 91) illustrates an example with this monogram, no.319, although on this exmaple the lettering fills a larger field than on the published version. This makes it more comparable with YORYM-850707 on this database; the majority recorded by the PAS are closer to the example in Read suggesting this is a rarer varient. Read categorises this hooked tag as Early Post Medieval Class E Type 3 and suggests they date from c.1500-1625, with most being used 1500-1550.
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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