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Description: | A copper alloy and silvered hooked tag which is post-medieval. The tag is a trefoil shape formed of three semi-spherical elements cast-in-one with the flat back plate. The tag is 23.8mm long, 23.4mm wide and 8.8mm thick. The three semi-spheres have elaborate ropework decoration. The edge of the plate is scalloped but many of the projections are now missing. On the reverse are a rectangular loop and the stub of a hook laying on the surface of the plate, but all the hook that projects beyond the plate is missing. The tag was silvered, and much of this survives. There is some damage to the domes which have corroded through in places. This design of hooked tag is fairly common and a close parallel can be seen on page 100 of ??Buttons and Fasteners?? by Gordon Bailey (2004). They date from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Cooper, Amy - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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