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Description: | An incomplete early Post Medieval cast copper-alloy sharp-hooked clasp or dress hook, c. 1450-1550 AD. The dress hook was originally three-piece; however the sheeting back plate, which would have created a square aperture, is now missing. The remains of the hook consist of the concave front plate, which is semi-circular in cross-section with a central panel decorated with cross-hatching and two transverse bands near the attachment-end and at the hook-end. Flanked on either side of the central panel is a deep vertical groove creating a slightly projecting edge which is flat in the reverse. This surface contains the remains of soldering, which would have connected the back plate to the front plate. The tapering sharp hook is still attached on one end of the object and is curled around itself, but intact. Cf. Read 2008, p. 53-54, nos. 168-169.
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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