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Description: | A flat, cast copper alloy hooked tag of post-Medieval date, about AD 1500 - 1700. It has a central body with a pineapple-like motif within a V shaped moulding, surrounded by an incompletely perforated openwork design of six circles. Above the body is a rectangular attachment loop and, depending from the bottom, a curved hook, the point of which has broken away and is missing. The reverse is undecorated. The tag has a light green patina. It is 33.4mm long, 17.2mm wide and 2.1mm thick. It weighs 2.73gm.Compare examples illustrated in Egan, 2005, Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition, page 44, especially numbers 153 and 155. It can be classified as Read's Class E Type 3 (following SWYOR-3391B5)
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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