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Description: | The object is a Post Medieval dress hook, made from cast copper alloy. The body of the dress hook is sub-circular in plan with moulded decoration. The decoration has a central pellet from which five high-relief lines radiate. Between each line there is another pellet. The reverse of the body is concave. The upper edge of the body has an integral trapezoidal loop protruding. The loop allows the dress hook to be stitched to the garment. Integral to the lower edge of the body is the hook. This protrudes from the centre of the lower edge and is semi-circular in section. The hook has a straight section and the terminal curls towards the reverse of the dress hook. The tip of the hook is missing, this is probably due to recent damage. The surface of the dress hook has traces of a mid green patina, otherwise the surface has red copper corrosion. The dress hook measures 27.95mm long and 12.13mm wide across the body. It weighs 1.7g. Margeson (Margeson, S. 1993 Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey, Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology 58) illustrates a similar dated dress hooks, Nos. 71 to 75, and dates these types of objects to the late 16th to 17th centuries.
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