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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy dress hook dating to the post-medieval period. The body consists of an openwork moulded trefoil knot, known as a Hungerford knot, decorated with hatching, now truncated following old damage. The reverse is flat, and is only punctuated by the three perforations of the openwork knot. Above, the attachment loop is formed of a rectangular bar with rounded ends, also hatched, connected to the body at each end by a moulded rosette of five petals at each end. The recurving hook has been lost in addition to the base of the body. The metal has a mid-/dark-green patina. Parallels can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 110; e.g. ref. 437). This is of Read's Early post-medieval Class E, Type 5 which is broadly 16th century in date.
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