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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy hooked tag of composite three-dimensional construction. Basically trefoil in shape, (measuring 21mm by 22mm in size) each foil has a hollow hemispherical boss attached to the backplate, probably using solder. Each of these bosses has two small roughly central parallel circular indentations. In the middle of the three bosses is a central roughly circular piece of cut copper-alloy sheet (9.7mm in diameter)it has fairly angular edges, where it has been cut and small transverse grooves can be seen at its edges. This may also have been soldered on but there is a central rivet present, the terminal of which can be seen on the reverse of the backplate. On the reverse, the trefoil backplate appears to be hollow and the top two foils are joined by a rectangular loop made from a separate strip of copper alloy (14.7mm in length and 4.3mm in width), whose ends penetrate the backplate and are soldered onto it. The lower foil has what is likely to be the remains of the solder which held the shaft of a hook emerging from the backplate; The hook itself is missing completely. This hooked tag is similar in composition and size, having a trefoil backplate with three decorative bosses to another copper-alloy hooked tag from Coddenham, Suffolk (see SF-3F47B4). It is also similar to several silver examples (see SF-B4E5E7). It is early post-medieval, 16th century in date. | Subjects: | composite | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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