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Description: | Incomplete late medieval/ early post medieval copper alloy hooked tag of the semi-cylindrical type. It is missing the pointed end of the hook.The tag consists of a thin (0.6mm thick) sheet copper alloy backplate within which a 7.7mm diameter circular aperture has been cut to aid fixing the tag to a cloak or other garment. This sheet plate attaches to a 2.1mm thick curving front plate with a step flanking each long edge. Bound on either short edge by a double-groove, the central zone is decorated with criss-cross grooves. 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.The wider end of the tag is open and 14.6mm wide (internally 7.7mm). It stands 7.4mm high (internally 4.5mm). Over the 29.2mm length of the tag it narrows in both width and height to 12.1x6.2mm. This end is closed and the D-shaped-in-section incomplete hook projects forwards to its (ancient) break. Weighs 6.4g. 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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