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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy dress-hook of sixteenth century date (AD 1500 - AD 1600). Length 25mm, Maximum width 14mm and maximum thickness 6.6mm. Weight 2.81g.The piece is deeply hollow and has a convex front. The back plate and most of the attachment hook are missing (only the stub survives). In plan, it is of trapezoidal shape. The width at the top (assuming that the hook is uppermost) is 12mm and the sides flare gently and evenly outwards towards the bottom where the width is 14mm. At each long side is a rebate, a form of groove. Between these grooves is a longitudinal zone of cross-hatched grooves in low relief, defined by a transverse rib at the top and a transverse rib at the bottom. The stub of the integral attachment hook at the top is 3.4mm in length and is roughly circular in cross-section. The soldered back plate (now missing) would probably have been flat and also perforated to allow attachment by thread. The piece is corroded and has small areas of copper alloy corrosion products at the front. No patina has survived. The cross-hatched grooves may have originally been filled with niello. However, none has survived on this example.This dress-hook belongs to a class of three-dimensional novelty reproductions of everyday household objects. This example appears to represent a sewing thimble or possibly a form of grater.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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