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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy dress hook dating to the post-medieval period. The artefact has survived well although the hook end where it recurves to form the hook has broken off at the tip. At the break the triangular cross-section can be seen. The body consists of an openwork moulded trefoil knot, known as a Hungerford knot, decorated with hatching. 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, seemingly plain, connected to the body at each end by a moulded rosette of five petals at each end. At the junction of the body and the hook is a moulded face-mask, upside down when the loop is viewed uppermost. The metal has a light-green corrosion product overlying a red-brown metal. Parallels can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 110; e.g. 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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