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HOOKED TAG

Unique ID: CORN-49690D

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Incomplete cast copper alloy hooked tag, probably from a sword belt, with an ovate body which tapers towards the hook, now mainly missing. There is a central rivet hole that is 3 mm in diameter. The hook curves away from the body of the tag and is now only 10 mm long and missing its pointed terminal which would have suspended from an eye attached to a plate mounted on to the belt.

Read (2001) illustrates a similar ovate hooked tag on page 42, fig.25, no.363, which is dated from the 17th century.

Read (2008) illustrates a similar pear-shaped hooked tag from a sword belt on page 219, no.787, which is dated from the 16th to the 17th century.

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 30 mm
Width: 15.5 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Weight: 4.07 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 21st June 2016 - Tuesday 21st June 2016

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Gwinear-Gwithian (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SW5939
Four figure Latitude: 50.20183985
Four figure longitude: -5.37853138
1:25K map: SW5939
1:10K map: SW59NE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Read, B.	2001	Metal artefacts of antiquity: A catalogue of small finds from specific areas of the United Kingdom	Langport	Portcullis Publishing	42, fig.25	no.363
Read, B.	2008	Hooked-Clasps and Eyes	Langport	Portcullis Publishing	219	no.787

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Recording Institution: CORN
Created: 7 years ago
Updated: 7 years ago

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