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HOOKED TAG
Unique ID: GLO-A7CA95
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
~~An incomplete copper-alloy hooked tag or clothes fastener dating to the early-medieval period (c. 9th century) of Lewis and Naylor's Class Class A1.d.i (lobed). The object has a flat circular plate with two pierced projecting lobes on the top edge. On the bottom edge is a hook that was truncated in antiquity, this has been repaired with a single rivet hole that still retails an iron rivet. The back of this area is encrusted in iron corrosion suggesting that the repaired hook was also made of iron. The face of the plate is decorated with six radiating narrow ovals the maybe petals, each petal has a double transverse line in the centre. running around the outside of the plate is a double band that is filled with a series of closely packed transverse lines creating a beaded effect. All decoration is crudely incised.
It can otherwise be classified as being of Read's Early medieval Class D, Type 1,
Class: Class A1.d.i (lobed)
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 800
Date to: Circa AD 900
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 31 mm
Width: 27 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight: 4.74 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st April 2016 - Thursday 1st December 2016
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Gloucestershire (County)
District: Forest of Dean (District)
To be known as: Forest of Dean
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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