Rights Holder: Winchester Museums Service
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Unique ID: HAMP-9793E1
Object type certainty: Certain
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A fragment from a cast copper-alloy hooked tag dating to the post-medieval period. The artefact has broken at the point at which it emerged from the body. This latter is circular and domed, with a trapezoidal attachment loop at one end. On the shallow convex dome, at the centre of the body is a moulded classical face-mask, a bearded male in three quarter view. The face is set within a plain circular raised border. The beard abuts the border at the attachment end; that is, it was probably orientated with the wearer in mind. The metal has a variable mid-green patina over a red-brown metal with areas of off-white corrosion product. A parallel can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 92; ref. 324), with a number of others on this database, e.g. HAMP-5B90A5. The corners of the loop have been bent upwards slightly in profile.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Quantity: 1
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 1st September 2011
This object was found at Weekend Wanderers - Somerton (01/09/11)
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Other reference: E3182
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
4 Figure: SP5128
Four figure Latitude: 51.948165
Four figure longitude: -1.259389
1:25K map: SP5128
1:10K map: SP52NW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Read, B. | 2008 | Hooked-Clasps and Eyes | Langport | Portcullis Publishing | 92 | 324 |