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Description: | A corroded but complete copper-alloy dress hook dating to the post-medieval period. The body consists of an openwork moulded trefoil knot, known as a Hungerford knot. The reverse is flat, and is only punctuated by the three perforations of the openwork knot, one perhaps not filed down. Above, the attachment loop is formed of a trapezoidal bar with rounded ends, seemingly plain, connected to the body at each end by a moulded pellet/rosette at each end. The recurving hook probably has a trapezoidal or rectangular cross-section and has been bent slightly. The metal has some mid-green corrosion product overlying a red-brown metal, mainly on the loop and body. A parallel can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 110; ref. 436). This is of Read's Early post-medieval Class E, Type 5 which is broadly 16th century in date.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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