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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy dress hook of Post-Medieval date. The dress hook is of Reads Class E, Type 3 being circular in plan. The main plate is a circular, hollow-domed boss bearing a five-petalled double rose within a cabled border. It has a trapezoidal attachment loop and an integral D-shaped sectioned hook extending from the opposite side. The tip of the hook has been lost due to an old break or due to post-depositional processes. The object is worn and the reverse is undecorated.The metal has a dark brownish-green patina. It is 33.01mm long, 14.31mm wide, 1.36mm thick and weighs 2.2gA similar example is illustrated in Reads p.95, no.346 and is dated to the early post-medieval period.
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