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Description: | 2012 T733; Post Medieval silver gilt dress hookDate of Discovery: October 2012Circumstances of discovery: Whilst searching with a metal detectorDate: Post MedievalDescription: Incomplete silver gilt dress hook comprising of two domed bosses from the face of the dress hook. A third domed boss and an attachment loop and hook on the reverse are missing. The complete dress hook would have had a sub-triangular face with a central circular hole located at the junction between the three raised domes. Approximately 60% of the edges to the central circular perforation survive which indicate - along with old breaks on the circumference of the remaining bosses - that the lower central dome is missing. Corrosion at the apex of both surviving domes suggests the possibility that each dome originally had a central knop. None of the damage is new. The remaining domes have an approximate base diameter of 6.9mm and are decorated with three wire loops creating three circular fields on each dome. The wire has a threaded decoration and small sections of the wire are missing on all of the loops. A threaded wire is also present around the base of each dome, at the junction of the dome with the base plate. The base plate has protruding knops in petal forms which radiate around the base of the domes. On one of the domes, two of the 'petals 'survive completely, with the stubs of two more petal forms remaining. The other dome has two damaged 'petals' with an uneven, broken edge around the rest of the circumference of the dome, presumably where more petals would have been present. The reverse of the dress hook has patches of dark brown / black residue and an uneven surface indicating the former attachment of a loop. Gilding is present on the face of the dress hook. It is 15.82mm long, 8.33mm wide, with a thickness of 4.43mm. It weighs 1.32g.Complete examples of similar dress hooks are recorded as 2012 T28, PAS: ESS-DB2074 and 2010 T268, PAS: ESS-1B7893. The dress hook is similar to Read (2008) Hooked-clasps & eyes, page 78 number 261.Report by: Eloise Markwick, Essex Finds Liaison Assistant.
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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