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Description: | Copper alloy hooked tag fragment. Cast openwork plate in the form of a [now incomplete] Stafford knot of paired strands surmounted by a pellet with central dimple on either side to which is attached a straight cross bar completing a top loop, and with a short collared backward pointing hook, shank now lost, Read Class E Type 5. The collar may be in the form of a bearded mask, now smoothed by wear. One of seven similar objects bagged together. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1500-1600.Length: 25mm, Width: 17.8mm, Thickness (plate): 1.6mm, Weight: 1.80gms.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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