Hooked Tage

Description

Silver hooked tag. Composite quatrefoil hooked tag with an attached transverse loop soldered to its back, and with the stub of a hook of shank similarly attached. The piece is selectively gilded, on the front of the back plate and on those larger four bosses attached to it, with the silver of the hook and the central cinquefoil in contrasting silver. Read Early Post-Medieval Class D Type 7.

Object number

NOLMS:2017.114

Object

HOOKED TAG

Production date

16th century

Period

Post-Medieval / Tudor

Material

Silver

Dimensions

Length: 29.2mm
Width: 20.3mm
Depth: 9.6mm
Weight: 4.58g

Provenance

CROWLE
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