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Description: | Post-medieval copper alloy composite dress hook, Read (2008) Class C type 3. The plate is hollow and semicircular in section with narrow flange to either side, part of one side slightly bent. The convex face decorated with an obliquely cross-hatched panel inlaid with niello with a transverse niello line above and below. A distorted circular sectioned hook protrudes from the base. The broken back-plate has the remains of a rectangular perforation. Length of body 25mm, length with hook 38.5mm. Width 14mm. Height 8mm. Cf. Read (2008, 54, no.170). 16th century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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