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Description: | Incomplete late medieval/ early post medieval copper alloy hooked tag of the semi-cylindrical type. It is missing its hook.The tag consists of a thin (0.7mm thick) sheet copper alloy backplate within which a square has been cut out c.11x9mm which would have aided fixing the object to a cloak or other garment. This attaches to a curving front plate with a broad groove running down each long edge with a zone of diagonal criss-cross groove decration in between and a double grooved border at top and bottom. The criss-cross grooves may once have been inlaid with niello (a black silver sulphide which was very fashionable as an inlay in the Tudor period) but there is no trace of this surviving. Flanking each long edge is a narrow step decorated at top and bottom with a pair of tiny transverse grooves.The wider end of the tag is open and 15.6mm wide (internally 11mm). It stands 9mm high (internally 7.6mm). Over the 19.7mm length of the tag it narrows in both width and height to 13.1x7.5mm. This end is closed but with a D-shaped opening for the hook itself, measuring 2.8x2.4mm.It is curious that to one side of the curving front plate the criss-cross design does not extend to the edge, whereas it extends very close to the edge on the opposite side.Almost all patina has been lost.Weighs 4.66g. 15th/ 16th century in date.
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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