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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 (Read, 2008: pp. 54-55). 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 oval in sectionand curves backwards before terminating in old breaks. The separately cast back plate is rectangular in form and of the same with as the projecting vertical edges of the front plate. It has an unevenly cut square perforation approximately mid-way down its length. With front and back plates combined a neat semi-circular aperture is formed at the attachment end through which the tag would have originally have been attached to an item of clothing. The front face contains inlaid decoration. This comprises single transverse grooves at top and bottom inlaid with niello. The face between these grooves has cross-hatched decoration inlaid with niello. Along the sides of the front face and at the join with the back face there are traces of an added white metal coating, which may possibly indicate the presence of additional decorative elements but might also be the remains of solder utilised to join the two pates together. The remainder of the tag appears undecorated. It measures 29.79mm in length (including hook), 15.96mm in width, 7.98mm in thickness, and weighs 6.62g. 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.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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