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Description: | The object is a Post Medieval dress hook or strap fitting, made from cast copper alloy. The body of the dress hook is an inverted drop-shape with an integral knop protruding from the upper edge and a horizontal collar from the lower edge. The body is decorated with fine lower relief strands splaying downwards from the upper edge. The reverse of the body is flat. On the body there are two rivets, one on the upper knop with the remains of copper alloy rivet through a rivet hole, the second rivet is integral to the reverse and is behind the collar on the reverse. Integral to the lower edge of the body, below the collar is the hook. It is semi-circular in section and forms an asymmetrical ?U? shape in profile. The surface of the dress hook has red copper corrosion. The dress hook measures 37.65mm long and 18mm wide across the body. It weighs 5.85g.
Margeson (Margeson, S. 1993 Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey, Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology 58) illustrates a similar undecorated strap hook fitting, No. 256 which is dated to early 17th century. The object is also reminiscent of late 16th to 17th century dress hooks, also illustrated in Margeson, Nos. 71-75. | 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: | 1575
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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