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Description: | The body of the dress hook is incomplete and abraded. In plan it is a sub-lozrnge shape with the upper corner missing.The two side corners have a small rivet hole in each, one has an iron rivet remaining, the other rivet hole is incomplete. The lower corner has a short portion of copper protruding which is flat and rectangular shape in plan. The lower edge is broken and was originally the hook portion of the object. The outer face of the object is decorated with a low relief pattern which appears to define a plume of feathers in each corner and has a boss in the centre of the mount. There are traces of gilding visible. The reverse is undecorated. The surface of the object is poor and corroded. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1540
1700 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Angie Bolton | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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