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Description: | Medieval dress hook; cast copper alloy plate from a dress hook, with the hook now missing. The hook is probably of 14th to 16th century date. The plate is lozenge-shaped and decorated on one face with tight, zig-zag lines (so-called ??wrigglework?? or rocker arm decoration). The lines extend around the edge of the plate and also cut across the centre in both directions, forming a cross. The reverse of the plate has an abraded patch running in a line across it, from one corner to the opposite corner. This is presumably where the strip which ended in a hook was attached. As the patch extends across the whole plate it is possible that the strip had a hook at both ends.
Length 25.6mm, width 24.8mm, thickness 0.9mm, weight 1.94g
Refs: See other examples on the database, such as SOM-8D2618 and HAMP-D10EB3
Also see 'Norwich Households' (1993, pp. 18-9, no. 81) and
'Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast' (2008, pp. 216 and 218, no. 3038)
Bailey, G. ??Buttons and Fasteners 500 BC ?? AD 1840?? (pp. 95, no. 12.14) | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Rohde, Anja | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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