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Description: | The object is possibly 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 collar and knop protruding from the upper edge. The lower edge is broken, but not recently. The body is decorated with fine lower relief scrolled strands. The reverse of the body is concave. Towards the lower edge of the body there is a rivet hole with the remains of an iron rivet. The surface of the object has traces of a mid green patina and red copper corrosion. The object measures 25.93mm long and 14.73mm wide across the body. It weighs 2.38g.
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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