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Description: | Cast gilt copper alloy dress hook with a lozenge-shaped plate, with five domed knops or bosses, three of which are extant, in a cross formation. The three extant knops, 5 mm in diameter, are riveted through the the plate, and there are too apertures that are 3 mm in diameter, which would have likely held another two knopped rivets. One has broken in the past as it is worn and now open to the outer edge, so it would have lost its rivet. These bosses or knops may be ornamental as they would not all have to be fixed to another plate or leather strap, and there seems to be a sixth aperture that has been drilled through the plate since the dress hook was made, perhaps to act as another attachment. This is only 1 mm in diameter but is chamfered at the back so that it could be flush riveted and suggests that it was hammered over from the back. There are patches of gilding on the front of the dress hook, so the entire front face of the plate was probably gilded originally.Read (2008) illustrates a similar lozenge-shaped dress hook with round knops and a central setting on page 194, no.717 and classifies it as an Early Post-Medieval Class A, Type 3.Egan (2005) illustrates a larger hooked clasp, with five riveted domed bosses at one end of the plate, on page 46, fig.28, no.167, which is dated from c.1500-1550.
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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