POST MEDIEVAL HOOKED TAG
The Portable Antiquities Scheme

POST MEDIEVAL HOOKED TAG

1500

CC0 — Public Domain
The Portable Antiquities Scheme

Post-medieval copper alloy hooked tag, rectangular with a rectangular loop and a bilobed collar at the top of the hook. On each side there are three small lobes. The central part consists of a raised boss whose flat top is engraved with an elaborate quatrefoil. The spaces between the boss and the sides are covered by a line of rocker-arm engraving. Read 2008 early post-medieval Class E Type 1, broadly comparable with ibid. 88, nos. 294-7. Length 19.5mm. Width 10mm. 16th century.

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