Record ID: SF9023
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy lace-tag, made from sheet metal with an edge-to-edge seam. Two V-shaped nicks are cut out of one end and the resulting points bent inwards to form the closed end. The open end has no rivet, and may be incomplete. It tapers slightly from roughly 4 mm in diameter at the open end to roughly 3 mm in diameter at the closed end. The weight includes the soil contained within the lace-tag. The technique of cutting one end of the lace-tag into a series of points which are then bent inwards to form the closed end does not appear to be used either on the lace-tags from medieval …
Created on: Tuesday 30th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9024
Object type: LACE TAG
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy tube, perhaps a lace-tag. Although it is now rather battered, it can be seen that it is made from sheet metal with an edge-to-edge seam. Neither end is closed and there are no rivet holes, but one end does appear to have been flattened. This end appears to be complete, but the other looks as if it has been torn. Two lace-tags of much the same diameter and construction, but much longer, are illustrated in Margeson 1993; one is from a late 15th-century context, the other from a context of c. 1550-1700.
Created on: Tuesday 30th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.