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HOOKED TAG

Unique ID: SF7251

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Hooked tag made from copper alloy. The plate is rectangular, and has tiny stubs at the top from a missing attachment loop. There is a border of large pellets; down either long side are four pellets, there are none at the top because of the attachment loop, and there is a single pellet in the centre of the bottom of the plate above the hook. Within the border of pellets is a relief rectangle with a single pellet in the centre. The hook has some moulded transverse decoration at the top (perhaps a broad groove above a ridge). The hook curves down and behind, and is complete but now slightly bent to one side. The object has a black patina on its lower surfaces which has rubbed off the higher areas; this may have been a 'black-lacquer' coating, characteristic of the period, which is at present thought to possibly be the result of applying a hot linseed oil coating.

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1500
Date to: AD 1650

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 24 mm
Width: 11 mm
Weight: 2.68 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st September 2001

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: Eastern (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: FRAMLINGHAM

Spatial coordinates

Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Character undetermined

References cited

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Recording Institution: SF
Created: 22 years ago
Updated: 13 years ago

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