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Description: | Silver-gilt dress hook cast on three sides with pairs of concave bosses and surmounted towards the hook with a fleur-di-lis pediment. The back plate is scalloped on the two vertical edges and is punctured by a rectangular aperture at the opposite terminal to the hook. The design of this type of dress hook was probably intended to represent a lamp. The dress hook is 22.36mm long and 13.05mm wide. Overall thickness, including the hook, is 9.14mm. Weight is 4.45g. Dress hooks of this type date to the 16th century. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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