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Description: | An incomplete Post Medieval copper-alloy dress hook of Early Post-Medieval Class A, Type 2. It is missing two of the attachment knops due to old breaks, now worn.The plate is flat and oval. The front face is decorated with a border of small annulets. Within the border are engraved lines and punched annulets forming a spray of flowers. There are the remains of three projecting trefoil attachment knops, one at the top and an opposing pair at either side of the plate towards the hook. At the bottom of the plate is a rectangular suspension loop. The back face is undecorated.This dress hook measures 39.44mm in length, 23.54mm in width, 1.52mm in thickness, 5.70g in weight.There are similar examples recorded by Read (Read, 2008, pp. 171, no. 643, 644) and on the PAS database (CAM-220D45), (IOW-721F11).
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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