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Description: | A probable cast copper alloy dress hook. The body of the dress hook has a circular cell bordered by a moulded rim. The centre of the cell has the remains of a small iron rivet. Originally there may have been a setting within this cell. The upper edge of the body has an integral sub-oval loop. The loop allows the dress hook to be stitched to the garment. Integral to the lower edge of the body is an elongated rectangular protrusion which is straight in profile and has a broken terminal. The break is not recent. The upper terminal has a collar and ornate moulding with openwork, securing it to the body. This protrusion may have originally formed the hook. The reverse of the hook is undecorated. The surface of the dress hook has traces of a mid green patina, and traces of a white metal alloy coating. The dress hook measures 50.02mm long and 20.79mm wide across the body. It weighs 5.68g. Margeson (Margeson, S. 1993 Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey, Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology 58) illustrates similar decorated, but smaller examples, Nos. 71 to 75, and dates these to the late 16th to 17th centuries.
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