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Description: | Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy dress hook, hollow, D-sectioned, with one slightly wider end open and a hook (tip missing) which springs from other, closed end. The sides are stepped, and the front is engraved with three transverse lines and oblique cross-hatching (probably once inlaid with niello). The separate sheet back-plate is pierced by a round aperture (diameter 7.5mm). Length 36mm. Width 11.7mm. Cf. Ward Perkins 1940, plate 76, no.9. Read 2008, early post-medieval single sharp-hooked clasp Class C, Type 3, and very close to no. 171. 16th century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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