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Description: | An incomplete lead-alloy dress hook dating to the early post-medieval period.The main body of the dress hook is made of lead alloy and is trefoil in shape. Comprising of three larger rounded domes arranged in a triangle with a central smaller dome at the cente. Traces of a border around the outside of smaller raised pellets survives in places. The reverse of the dress hook is mainly flat with a raised rectangular slot for housing the missing iron hook fitting located on one lobe and a rectangular attachment loop bridged across the two other lobes.This is a Read Class D, Type 6 hooked clasp (Read 2008: 76) and is very similar to number 252.Dated c.1500-1600.
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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