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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy composite hooked tag of Medieval to Post-Medieval date, belonging to Read's Class C Type 3 hooked tags. It has a rectangular copper-alloy front plate that is D-shaped in section with rounded front face and concave back face. Along each side the front plate thickens to form projecting vertical edges. At its base the front plate is closed and has a separately cast copper-alloy hook that is D-shaped in sectioned and curves backwards to join the back plate, tapering to a pointed tip. The separately cast back plate is rectangular in form and of the same width as the projecting vertical edges of the front plate. It terminates in a U-shaped aperture mid-way up the length of the back face, presumably where the tag would have originally have been attached to an item of clothing. The front face contains the remains of moulded and inlaid decoration. This comprises double transverse grooves at top and bottom, the face between having cross-hatched decoration, all now missing their inlaid niello due to old breaks. Traces of an added white metal coating are visible on the sides and edges of he back face, which are perhaps decorative in nature but may be the remains of solder. The entire object has worn surfaces. It measures 32.79mm in length, 14.95mm in width, 6.98mm in thickness and 7.68g in weight.This is a composite hooked tag belonging to Read's Class C Type 3. He publishes a near identical example from Somerset (Read, 2008: no. 168) and dates the group to the late Medieval or early Post-Medieval period. Similar examples are noted on the PAS database (e.g. SF-EFECE2, SF-D99161 or NMS-A21AC3) and suggest a late-15th to 16th century AD date for the current example.
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