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Description: | A lead alloy and iron dress hook dating from the early post-medieval period, AD 1500 - 1600. The main body of the dress hook is made of lead alloy and is trefoil in shape. Surrounding each of the domed lobes of the trefoil are a series of pellets forming a beaded border. There is also a larger pellet in the centre, flanked by three pellets, one between each pair of lobes. The back of the dress hook is flat and has a projecting rectangular attachment loop, extending backwards rather than upwards. A vertical ridge on the reverse forms a tube into which the iron hook was fitted. Only a fragment of the iron survives. A very similar but complete example is DUR-49FB12 which is classified as a Read Class D, Type 6 hooked clasp (Read 2008: 76), similar to number 252.The dress hook is 24.9mm long, 22.1mm wide and 13.8mm thick. 12.92g. Compare also DOR-A93005 and LANCUM-23D537. These dress hooks would have been desinded to imitate filigree decorated silver gilt examples.
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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