|
Date: |
|
Description: | A complete cast copper-alloy hooked tag dating to the post-medieval period. The artefact has survived well and all of its attributes are intact: curved hook, circular body, rectangular attachment loop. The circular tag has a beaded border and two raised perpendicular lines dividing it into quarters. Elsewhere this has been described as a cross where each arm terminates in a trefoil. The field within each quarter is perforated with four circles: one towards the small central 'boss', three around the circumference - a total of sixteen perforations for the object. In certain areas the lines between the perforations have been abraded away, but generally wear is at a minimum. The reverse is flat, carrying the border's beads and the perforations mentioned. At the junction of tag and hook there is an element slightly wider than the hook which features a pair of punched circles. As with other examples illustrated in Margeson (1993, 17; fig. 8), the curved part of the hook is not aligned with the straight element. The metal has corroded to a mid-light green colour. Hooked tags of this design have been recorded elsewhere on the Portable Antiquities Scheme Database from places as far apart as Braintree in Essex and Barton upon Humber: see records NMGW-495344, NLM-01F880. These have been dated to the second half of the 17th century AD, although they are potentially earlier. | 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: | 1550
1675 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
|
More Like this...
-
-
-
-
-
HOOKED TAG
An incomplete cast copper-alloy hooked…
-
Hooked tag
An incomplete cast copper-alloy hooked…
-
-
-
-
|