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Description: | 1: A copper-alloy hooked tag, 31mm in length and 14mm in width, 2.23g in weight. This hooked tag has been cast in one piece, it has a rectangular loop at its top and a circular plate measuring 31mm in diameter. This plate is decorated with an open work design consisting of a six petalled possible flower with a circular hole inbetween each petal. Each of the petals has a circular indentation in their centre and in the centre of the flower there are two circular grooves. The edge of the plate is decorated with evenly spaced rounded protruding knops. The hook is incomplete, its tip is missing due to an old break. It is rectangular in plan with a convex front face and a flat back face. 2: A copper-alloy hooked tag, measuring 41mm in length, 20mm in width and 3.28g in weight. This hooked tag has been cast in one. The loop is at the top and rectangular in shape. The plate is oval in shape, measuring 18mm in length and 20mm in width, it has been decorated with open work designed to represent curvilinear foliage. The hook is incomplete due to an old break and its tip is missing, it is rectangular in plan with a convex front face and a flat back face. 3: A cast in one copper-alloy hooked tag, measuring 30mm in lenght, 16mm in width and 2.81g in weight. It has a rectangular loop at its top and a roughly circular plate with a diameter of 16mm. This plate is decorated with a central recessed four petalled flower, around the outside of the flower there are small circular perforations, the edge of the plate also has small protruding knops. The hook is complete but bent backwards very sharply, its tip is almost touching its back face, it tapers to a point. This hooked tag is convex on its front face and flat on its back face. 4: A copper-alloy hooked tag, measuring 34mm in length, 13mm in width and 4.55g in weight. This hooked tag has been cast in one but it does not have a loop, instead it has a rectangular shaped plate, 24mm in length, 13mm in width and 6mm thick with a semi-circular cross-section. The front face of this plate is decorated with two longitudinal grooves, along each longitudinal edge, there is incised cross hatching in between these grooves and two transverse grooves at the top and bottom of the plate. The hook is complete and its tip curves backwards so that it is almost touching its back face. It tapers to a point and has a convex front face and a flat back face. The back face of the plate is also flat, it is now incomplete but part of a copper-alloy sheet remains, it is likely that there was originally a square hole cut in this sheet, which would have had the same function as a loop on the other hooked tags previously examined. All of these hooked tags are early post-medieval in date and similar tags have been discovered in Norwich it is believed that the hooked tag under went a revival at this point they were used for a variety of purposes associated with clothes fastening and accessories (Margeson 1993, 17, figure 8).
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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