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Description: | Incomplete composite silver gilt dress-hook, originally with a back-plate of trefoil form cusped around the edge. Length 21mm, originally the width would have been about 15mm. The back-plate supports three hemispherical bosses which are applied in filigree in the form of three circlets with a central knop. At the centre of the dress-hook and contiguous with each of the circlets is a larger knop. This knop is decorative rather than the head of a functional pin like some other known dress-hooks are fitted with. The hook which is soldered to the back-plate is relatively crude when compared with the standard of decoration and workmanship on the front. A raised transverse attachment bar was fitted at the lower part of the back. This is now missing. However, a residue of solder is evidence for its former presence. | Subjects: | Trefoil | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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