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HOOKED TAG
Unique ID: KENT-06F0F1
Object type certainty: Possibly
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete gilt copper-alloy probable hooked tag likely of 16th century date.
Description: The object survives roughly rectangular shape with a flat unbroken end and an abraded incomplete(?) end. The fragment is very slightly curved in cross-section, concave on the reverse. The front is decorated with incised vertical lines terminating at a pair transverse lines near the bottom which seperates them from a pair of Xs at each bottom corner. Between the Xs is a dmaged pannel possibly relating to a now missing hook. The reverse is undecorrated anda mottled light green to light brown. The fron has some trace sof gilding and is mottled light green and dark brown
Measurements: 20.44mm long, 12.35mm wide, 1.88mm thick and 1.35g in weight.
Discussion: The exact identity of this object is uncertain but it resembles in size and style certain Early-Posted medieval hooked tags as discussed by Brian Read (2008).
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 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 20.44 mm
Width: 12.35 mm
Thickness: 1.88 mm
Weight: 1.35 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Canterbury (District)
Parish or ward: Barham (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR2049
Four figure Latitude: 51.19784052
Four figure longitude: 1.1475355
1:25K map: TR2049
1:10K map: TR24NW
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
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