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Description: | A cast copper alloy Post Medieval dress hook. The body of the dress hook is sub-circular in plan with a possible moulded rosette as decoration. The reverse of the body is concave and undecorated. The upper edge of the body has an integral trapezoidal shaped loop. The loop allows the dress hook to be stitched to the garment. Integral to the lower edge of the body is the hook. This protrudes from the centre of the lower edge and is sub semi-circular in section. The hook terminal curls towards the reverse of the dress hook. The surface of the dress hook has an abraded surface with a large patch of corrosion. The dress hook measures 27.44mm long and 14.29mm wide across the body. It weighs 2.5g.Margeson (Margeson, S. 1993 Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey, Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology 58) illustrates a similar dated dress hooks, Nos. 71 to 75, and dates these types of objects to the late 16th to 17th centuries.
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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