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Description: | Post Medieval (mid 16th to 17th centuries) dress hook: The body of the dress hook is sub-circular in plan with a moulded high-relief central design of a lozenge with cross-hatching with eight circler decorative perforation on the upper corners. The upper edge has traces of a trapezoidal loop. The reverse of the body is flat and undecorated. Protruding from the centre of the lower edge is an incomplete hook. The surface of the dress hook has an abraded surface with traces of a mid green patina. The dress hook measures 27.61mm long and 14.97mm wide across the body. It weighs 1.7g.Read (2008) classifies this type as Class E, Type 3, for example No. 402, which he dated to the to the first half of the 16th century, and Margeson (1993) illustrates a similar dated dress hooks, Nos. 71 to 75, and dates these types of objects to the late 16th to 17th centuries.Margeson, S. 1993 Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey, Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology 58Read, B. 2008 Hooked-Clasps and Eyes Portcullis Publishing
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