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Description: | Copper-alloy hooked tag of semi-cylindrical type, now incomplete. The tag is hollow and tapers downwards slightly towards the hook. It has a backplate which looks as if it originally had a rectangular cut-out at the top and a squarish cut-out lower down, leaving a reserved bar around which the tag could be sewn to the garment or to a ribbon. The bar has now broken away. There are extensive traces of gilding on the backplate. The curved front plate has a broad groove running down each long edge, and in between has a zone of diagonal criss-cross grooves with 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. At the bottom is the circular-section stub of a missing hook (fresh break) which also has traces of gilding on the reverse. The function of hooked tags is unknown, but it is guessed that they may have been clothing fasteners. They vary from very fine examples in gilded silver to very cheap and nasty copper-alloy ones. This one is rather well made and is unusual among copper-alloy examples in being gilded. It is at the top end of the market for copper-alloy examples. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1500
1650 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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