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Description: | Description: Silver gilt 16th century dress-hook, complete apart from most of the integral loop. Fragments of the sides of this loop survive and project vertically from the top edge of the plate, the loop appears to have been rectangular in shape originally.
The plate is moulded in the form of a circular Tudor rose and in its centre there is a fleur-de-lis motif, when this motif is viewed the right way up the missing loop would be at its base, which probably indicates the orientation this hook was worn.
The hook is soldered onto the flat back face of the plate; it is complete and curves backwards abruptly, terminating in a sharp point.
Discussion: This dress hook is most likely to be of Group II type. An example from Martyr Worthy, Hampshire is of Group II form and of very similar form to this more recent example. (Gamister, Hayward, Mitchell, and Parker, 2002, 167-168, fig 11, no.11).
This type of dress hook is less common than Group I, which are more ornamental with soldered on bars and hooks. The distinctive features of Group II hook-fasteners are that the decorative plate and the loop are cast in one on a single plane and that a separate recurving hook is soldered onto the back of the plate at right angles at the opposite end to the loop.
Dimensions: 21.04mm in length, 13.35mm in width and 2.45g in weight.
The precious metal content of this hooked tag fulfils the requirements of the Treasure Act in that it is greater than 10 %. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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