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Description: | A cast copper-alloy hooked tag dating from the post-medieval period. Mass: 1.1g; length: 28.6mm; width: 15.7mm; thickness of plate: 1.4mm. The hooked tag consists of a sub-circular openwork plate orientated at right angles to an integral hook which projects from one end. Unusually, there is no integral loop on the opposite end of the plate to the hook. The loop is probably missing, but this could not be confirmed from examination of the heavily corroded object. The hooked tag has a pitted green and brown surface.
Egan (ibid. p.42) comments that single hooked tags are thought to have been used in pairs on the ends of short chains or straps. Their function was probably joining subsidiary, decorative accessories together or onto a main garment, strap or the like (ibid.).
The object recorded here is similar to the hooked tag from Henstead with Hulver Street, Suffolk, recorded on the PAS database (SF-FAFFC1) although that has an integral loop. A number of broadly similar hooked tags are included in: ??Material Culture in London in an Age of Transition??, Egan (2005, p44 and figure 25). Egan states that these seem to have been fairly briefly in fashion from perhaps the late 15th to the (?mid/late) 16th centuries. Based on the large numbers recovered on both sides of the North sea, Egan suggests that hooked tags were, ??very popular in their day?? (ibid.). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Slarke, Duncan - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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