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Description: | Silver Hooked Tag, Read Class D Type 7. Cast quatrefoil back plate with a hemispherical boss on each lobe, and a cast rectangular loop and tapered pointed pin, now bent backwards, soldered to the back. The loop behind bears a maker's mark of a cross potent, formed by the juxtaposition of eight strikes of an L shaped stamp. Each boss bears three juxtaposed coils of twisted or cabled wire soldered to its front, these are obscured by damage on one boss. A bifurcated silver rivet passes through the centre of the plate, splayed behind to secure it and protruding on the display face to hold a separate central boss, now lost. Corrosion suggests this lost boss was of copper alloy. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1600.Length: 24.9mm, Width: 17mm, Thickness (overall, though clear of pin and loop): 3.7mm, Weight: 4.01gms.
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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