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Description: | A silver Read Class B, Type 2 dress hook dating to the early Post-Medieval period. The object is cast in two pieces with a silver circular sheet and a separate hooked-section. The circular sheet is surrounded by twisted wire filigree. The object is decorated with a central cross, in the centre of which is the base of a circular rivet which attaches the hook. Within each angle of the cross is an oval silver wire cell, each of which are in filled with a white enamel or stone. The cross, also of silver wire is also likely to have been infilled with enamel or stone which is now missing, as would the voids between the four ovals.On the rear of the object a separate silver wire is bent in the centre to form a hook, each running0end is bent in the same plane as the shank and then into a close-butted attachment-spiral. Traces of gilding are visible on the outer face.Similar to an example recorded as Portable Antiquities Scheme database number BH-0174E0. Read Class B, type 2 (Read, 2008, 159). c. 16th century.
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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