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Description: | Cast copper alloy havette or 'habick'. Rectangular in section with slightly convex front edge. The ends terminate with a sharp barb that points inwards. The centre of the bar is a rectangular block with an incised X on three sides with line above and below. This was used as a grip when securing or removing the havette.
Havettes were used by shearmen to secure newley woven cloths to a bench whilst the nap was trimmed. Havettes were used into the 19th century in the north of England but this example is paralleled by those depicted on the Arms of the Clothworker's Company of London granted in 1530, even including the the incised cross on the grip, therefore suggesting a similar date. See Egan, 1979 for an iron example found in London (Egan, G., A Shearman's Hook From London, Transactions of the London of Middx. Arch. Soc., 30, 1979, pp.190-192) | 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: | 1530 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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