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Description: | A corroded and incomplete cast copper-alloy post-medieval hooked tag. The plate is broadly shield shaped and has a flat back and moulded front. At the top edge are three small protrusions at the centre, the outer two being the vestiges of the loop which is now missing. The loop could have been rounded or rectangular, the difference reflected in the varying comparanda noted below. However similar this artefact is to those noted it lacks the exaggeration of their engrailed or cusped edges. The plate is openwork with a row of four perforations which run in a line across the top. The arrangement of holes in the recessed shield element, broadly three-two-two, is similar to those noted, and equally badly finished it would seem. A moulding at the junction of plate and hook is difficult to discern due to corrosion. The recurving hook is short, curling round to abut the back with the tip bent slightly to one side. The artefact can be compared with similar hooked tags illustrated in Read (2007, 91, 121; refs. 317-318, 499), respectively classified as Early post-medieval Class E, Type 2, and Class H, Type 3. It has corroded to a variable green colour with patches of lighter corrosion product and tinning.
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