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Description: | A near complete cast copper alloy dress hook of Post Medieval date. The dress hook consists of a lozenge-shaped central flat plate with an integrally cast hook projecting from one corner. The lozenge-shaped (or diamond-shaped) attachment plate, which forms the main decorative body of the clothing fastener, consists of a central plain lozenge with a central single raised pellet and, around the edge, a raised border. Beyond this border the plate has openwork decoration, rather reminiscent of lacework, probably intended to be a floriate design. This openwork may have given the outer edge of the plate a circular appearance, but the edges are now worn and incomplete. The hook is triangular in form at the base, where it meets the plate and carries some, now very worn, moulded decoration.The dress hook has very little patina remaining, although this is dark green where it does survive, mostly it appears reddish brown in colour.Dress hooks are not an uncommon find and examples of this type are typically dated to the Post Medieval period, primarily to the 16th Century AD, c.1500-1600.Reference: Brian Read, Hooked-Clasps & Eyes, p.108, number 430 (Class E Type 4).
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