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Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy hooked tag dating to the post-medieval period. The artefact has survived well and all of its attributes are intact: curved hook (bent to one side), body, sub-rectangular attachment loop. The body consists of an openwork moulded trefoil knot, known as a Hungerford knot, decorated with hatching. The reverse is flat, and is only punctuated by the three perforations of the openwork knot. Above the attachment loop is formed of a rectangular bar with rounded end, also decorated with hatching, joined to the body at each end by a moulded rosette of five petals. At the junction of the body and the hook is a moulded face-mask, upside down when the loop is viewed uppermost. The metal has a mid-dark-green patina overlying a red-brown metal.The hooked tag is 31.65mm in length, 20.05mm in width, 6.4mm thick and weighs 2.6 grams.
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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