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Description: | An incomplete Post Medieval cast copper alloy dress hook. The dress hook is made of a single piece of cast copper alloy. The body of the dress hook is a moulded trefoil with openwork with an integral sub-trapezoidal loop protruding from the upper edge of the dress hook body. The reverse of the body is flat. The lower leaf of the trefoil is broken, not recently, therefore the hook element of the dress hook is missing. The surface of the dress hook has a an abraded surface which is a red/brown colour. The dress hook measures 15.32mm long, 17.78mm wide and weighs 1.3g. Margeson (Margeson, S. 1993 Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey, Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology 58) illustrates similar dated dress hooks, Nos. 71 to 75, and dates these types of objects to the late 16th to 17th centuries. Read (Read, B. 2008 Hooked-Clasps and Eyes Portcullis Publishing) illustrates a similar designs, Nos. 436-438 and classifies them as Class E Type 5 dating them to the 16th and early 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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