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Description: | Post-medieval copper alloy dress hook dating to the 16th century AD. This is a Read Class D Type 6 trefoil dress hook.The dress hook is composite in construction comprised of sheeting, wire and ground-supported twisted wire filigree and pellets, with a wire hook and loop attached to the reverse of a die-stamped front plate. The front consists of a trefoil of domed bosses each with four large annulets encircling a small annulet and a pellet. There is also a central setting, probably for a glass bead which is now missing. The backplate is largely incomplete and comprises a trefoil of hollow domed bosses. The wire hook and transverse laterally projecting loop have been attached to the reverse of the front plate by solder. The hook now broken is constructed from a length of wire with a sharpened point. The dress hook is a mid to dark green colour, with an uneven surface patina and traces of probable silvering. The length is 22mm and thickness 16mm.The dress hook shares similarities with NARC-B959E0, SWYOR-9BBE06 and SWYOR-1CEF77 which are silver gilt and classified as treasure but this example appears to have more in common with LON-4F14B1, WMID-7DA582 and WMID-0315F2 which are copper alloy that may have been silvered or gilded and therefore not classified as treasure.The dress hook is of the type classified by Read (2008, 78) as an Early Post Medieval Class D, type 6, a single sharp-hooked clasp. These type are typically distinguished by a transverse laterally projecting attachment loop on the reverse. Class D come in a variety of different front shapes, with Type 6 being trefoil like this example. Read considers all of Class D hooked tags to be of 16th Century dating (2008, 59).Reference:Read, B. 2008. Hooked-Clasps and Eyes. A Classification and Catalogue of Sharp- or Blunt-Hooked Clasps and Miscellaneous Hooks, Eyes, Loops, Rings or Toggles. Portcullis Publishing, Langport, Somerset.
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