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Description: | An early post-medieval copper-alloy hooked tag, which has been cast in one piece. The hollow body is rectangular in shape and semi-circular in cross section. The convex front is decorated with lozengiform cross-hatching. The cross-hatching is confined within an area delineated by two vertical parallel grooves, one on either side of the tag, and four horizontal/transverse grooves, two at either end of the body section. The flat back is plain and has a square hole cut out of the centre. An integral hook protrudes from the centre of the bottom of the tag. The tag is 31.94mm in length, 12.7mm in width, 7.88mm thick and weighs 5.4g. Hooked tags of this type were used mostly as clothes fastenings. It is thought that they were hooked onto a cord or straight into material, rather than through an ?eye?. An identical parallel was found in London and has been dated to the 15th century (Ward Perkins, 1940, London Museum Medieval Catalogue, p 273 and 279, plate LXXVI, No. 9). Similar examples can also be seen on this database, including NLM-7E15C3 and NLM-EF8491. | 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 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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