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Description: | An incomplete Post Medieval copper alloy blunt hook. The greater part of the object is ovate in shape with the remnant of a circular attachment eye located centrally at the broader end. At the narrow end the main body is symmetrically flanked by two similar and complete attachment eyes. At this point there is a short slightly taperering rectangular projection towards what would have been a blunt hooked end, the hook part of which is now missing from an old break. The ovate front face of the object is decorated in champleve style with sub-lozenge shaped panels and scrolling foliate plant tendrils infilled with black, white and small dots of green enamel. The rear face of the object is flat and plain. There is a similar example illustrated in Read (2008, 169, number 632) which he dates to between the mid 16th-17th century.
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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