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Description: | Post Medieval cast copper alloy dress hook with a pierced sub-circular plate and rectangular loop; missing the hook. The stub of the projecting hook remains but most is lost to a patinated break. The hook and loop are opposite each other and are both D shaped in section. The central plate is sub-circular with a straight edge adjacent to the loop. It is decorated with a spray of three flowers alternating with leaves radiating out from a central pellet near the loop, all within a ropework border. There are piercings between the flowers and leaves and between the leaves and central pellet and the edge. There are pellets at the junctions between the plate and the ends of the loop and a pair of pellets at the junction of the hook and plate. It now measures 22.1mm long by 16.3mm wide and 1.3mm thick. It weighs 1.52 grams. There are various similar examples on the database including NMS-2286D4.Read (2008:100, No.375) illustrates a similar example and categorises this type as Early Post Medieval Class E Type 3 which he suggests date from AD 1500-1625, with most being used AD 1500-1550 and possibly some residual use into the 18th century.
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