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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy dress hook of post-medieval date. The dress hook is of Reads Class E, Type 5 being trefoil in plan. The main plate is an open work trefoil design with a D-shaped section and an integral D-shaped sectioned hook extending from the lower curved edge of the bottom loop of the knot. Two small circular details, possibly representing roses, mark the join between the main plate and the attachment loop. About half of the hook has been lost due to a break from wear or from post-depositional processes and the object is bent out of it's original shape at a right angle, again, possibly due to post-depositional processes. The reverse of the object is flat and undecorated.The metal is mid brown-green in colour. The object is 21.45mm long, 16.22mm wide, 1.41mm thick and weighs 1.38g.A similar example is illustrated in Read, p.110, no.436
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