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Description: | An incomplete copper alloy dress hook (single sharp hooked eye), of Early Post Medieval dating (AD 1500 to AD 1600).Around 50% of the dress hook is present, with the hook and part of the trefoil openwork design incomplete.The hooked eye is irregular in plan, and rectangular in section. It is of an openwork design, with a large sub rectangular eye section. The openwork plate consists of a hatched Hungerford knot in a trefoil shape, with two undecorated pellets at the junction between the eye and the plate. The reverse is undecorated.It measures 16.0 mm in length, 16.9 mm wide and 1.7 mm thick. It weighs 1.3 grams.The hooked clasp is a mid green colour, with an even surface patina.This dress hook is similar to those published as #436-439 in Read, 2008 (p110), classified as Early Post Medieval Class E single sharp hooked clasps, Type 5. Read (2008, 87), mentions that all Class E clasps recovered by the Thames Mudlarks have been from secure c. AD 1500 to c. AD 1550 deposits, suggesting a 16th Century date.Reference:Read, B. (2008) Hooked Clasps and Eyes. Portcullis Publishing, Langport.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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