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HOOKED TAG
Unique ID: SF-DA1978
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper-alloy Post Medieval blunt-hooked tag, dating to AD 1500-1700. It consists of an oval flat plate with three attachment knops and a forward curving hook. The front face is decorated with a blossomed flower centred along the median longitudinal axis; leaves flanks the stem. along the border there i s a tight sequence of punched cirlces. The field is decorated with close incised lines. At the base of the stem there is a transverse ridge flanked by two parallel grooves; below, the plate joins the hook.The outer face of the hook is slightly concave along its median longitudinal axis. The back faces of the plate and the hook are undecorated. White metal coating is still abbundant all over the surface.
It belongs to Class A, Type 2 in Read (2008, cf. with the eye-section tag in p. 171, no. 644)
Length: 41.91 mm
Width: 29.61 mm
Thickness: 2.27 mm
Weight: 7.25 g
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 41.91 mm
Width: 29.61 mm
Thickness: 2.27 mm
Weight: 7.25 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 17th June 2016
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: EKE 053
Other reference: Finders reference SS15 040
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Suffolk Coastal (District)
To be known as: Eyke
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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