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Description: | Post medieval 16th century cast lead alloy dress hook / hooked tag, incomplete, upper part only. The original hook would have consisted of a trefoil plate with a raised domes on each lobe and smaller central pellet, a rectangular loop on the upper part of the reverse, and a recurving hook projecting from the lower part. The lower part of the plate and the hook are now broken off, leaving just the upper two lobes of the trefoil and the rectangular loop. There is a casting line on the reverse, in line with the loop. Thick cream patina. Length (incomplete) 12.96mm, width 23.58mm, thickness including loop 7.5mm, thickness not including loop 3.5mm, length of loop (external) 13.54mm & (internal) 6.8mm, weight 6.08g.
This is a 'poor-man's' version of the silver-gilt dress hooks which are frequently reported as Treasure (e.g. see Treasure Annual Report 2001 p78-80, Treaure Annual report 2004 no.s 261-284). For a discussion see D. Gaimster et al "Tudor silver-gilt dress-hooks: a new class of Treasure find in England", Antiquaries Journal, 82 (2002). | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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