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Description: | A Post Medieval (17th century) dress hook: The dress hook is made from copper alloy. This dress hook is composed of three integral portions, a loop, the decorative body and the hook. The loop frame is incomplete and folded over the outer face of the body. The loop is sited at the upper edge of the decorative body. In plan the body is rectangular and the edge is moulded with a beaded border. The outer face is decorated with a central circular hole in the centre with four perforations in each corner. The reverse of the body is undecorated except for the areas of openwork. Protruding from the lower edge of the body is a hook which is integral to the body. The hook is an elongated triangle which has been curved backwards to form a 'u' shape in profile. The dress hook is abraded and has a light mottled green surface due to active corrosion. It measures 23.88mm long, 14.14mm wide, 3.98mm thick, and weighs 1.3g.Margeson (1993) illustrates similar dated dress hooks, Nos. 71 to 75, and dates these types of objects to the late 16th to 17th centuries.Margeson, S. 1993 Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey, Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology 58
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