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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy dress-hook of sixteenth century date (c. AD 1500 - c. AD 1600). Length 32.8mm, Maximum width 13.2mm and maximum thickness 6.0mm. Weight 5.13g. The piece is deeply hollow and has a convex front. The back plate and the tip of the attachment hook are missing. In plan, it is of trapezoidal shape. The width at the top (assuming that the hook is uppermost) is 11.1mm and the sides flare gently and evenly outwards towards the bottom where the width is 13.2mm. At each long side is a rebate. Between these rebates is a longitudinal zone of cross-hatched grooves, in low relief and defined by a pair of parallel transverse ribs at the top and the bottom. The incomplete hook at the top of the object is 9.0mm in length. It is roughly D-shaped in cross-section and is flat on the rear face. The hook curves rearwards and has an old break. The soldered back plate would probably have been flat and also perforated to take thread, thus enabling the dress hook to be sewn onto a garment. The piece is corroded and has a patina on the front which ranges in colour from light brown to mid-green. The concave reverse is corroded and no patina has survived on this face. The decorative cross-hatching and the grooves above and below are partially filled with a dark grey/black material which is possibly decayed niello. There is no indication of any silvering. | 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: | 1500
1600 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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