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Description: | A silver gilt hooked tag dating form the 16th century. The dress hook is trefoil in plan, with an external knop in each angle. Each lobe is domed and surrounded by an applied twisted wire border. The knops are domed pellets, and a matching one is in the centre of the plate between the three lobes. The pellets also have twisted wire borders. The plate of the lowermost lobe is extended into a point at the base.On the flat reverse is soldered a hook which would have projected downwards and curved backwards, but only the upper part of this survives. There are also scars from a soldered loop across the top which is missing. There is no makers mark.Compare NARC-B959E0 which is complete and SWYOR-9BBE06.Similar silver gilded hooked tags have previously been reported as Treasure. For example, 2006 T128. D Thornton reports: This style of dress fastening was common during the 16th century in Tudor England and was used to secure items of dress, likely restricted to female costume.This object is more than 300 years old and is more than 10% silver so it meets the requirements of the 1996 Treasure Act.
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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