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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, body, rectangular attachment loop. The body consists of a central berry-like cross-hatched motif in a V-shaped moulding surrounded by an openwork rosette; there is a fleur-de-lys motif at the edge of the loop. The reverse is flat, and is only punctuated by the eight perforations of the openwork rosette: four each side of the central lobe. 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. This design of hooked tag has been found in a context dated by ceramic evidence to the late 16th century in London (Egan 2005, 44; ref. 153), and an early 17th-century context in Norwich (Margeson 1993, 17; ref. 72). Egan (2005, 44) also refers to similar examples found in the Netherlands. Many such can also be found on this database: see " Images , typing 'hooked tag' in the filter box. | 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
1625 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Robert Webley | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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