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Description: | Description: A silver-gilt composite dress hook; the back pate is trifoliate in plan with notches around the edge. This plate has a central circular perforation and on two of the lobes on the reverse there are traces of soldering which the loop would have been originally fitted, and which is now missing. Soldered to the third lobe, on the reverse is a silver hook which is 'U'-shaped in profile and whose terminal tapers to a sharp point. The outer face of the back plate has three hemispherical bosses, one on each lobe. Each hemisphere is decorated with three single-strand 'rope-twist' filigree wire circlets and a domed pellet at the apex. The field between the three hemispheres, the centre of the dress hook, is filled with a domed headed rivet, whose shank is divided into two and passes through the perforation of the back plate. On the reverse of the back plate the arms of the shank are folded in opposite directions, lying flat against the plate to secure the rivet in place. Behind the head of the rivet, there is a circular ungilded washer which is decorated with radiating grooves, so that together with the rivet head it gives the appearance of a flower.
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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