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DRESS HOOK
Unique ID: LVPL-4A0113
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
A silver-gilt dress-hook with a six-lobed pinked back plate. In each corner of the lobes is a knop. On top of the back plate is a sub hexagonal cushion and shaped with this are four domes, one positioned on each alternate lobe and one placed in the centre, two now damaged. Around the base of each dome is a filigree wire border. In each space left above the other alternate lobes are two knops radiating from the central dome. On the reverse is a transverse attachment bar, under which is a hole. This hole may have accommodated a pin that secured an additional decorative element to the front, now missing. There is also part of the recurving hook in place, the remainder now missing.
Notes:
This dress shook has been identified as a Read class D, Type 10 (Read 2008, p84-85). Similar examples can be found on the PAS database (2013 T627, WAW-BBB610 // 2003 T23; 2003 TAR, p.120; PAS ID: NMS2204).
The object has been soaked in olive oil obscuring the detail. The hook broke away from the object after discovery and has since been lost.
Consequently, in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Class: Class D, Type 10 Sexfoil
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Museum of Liverpool
Subsequent action after recording: Acquired by museum after being declared Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2014T71
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Thickness: 8.46 mm
Weight: 5.3 g
Diameter: 21.96 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 1st January 2012
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Other reference numbers
Treasure case number: 2014T71
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: St. Helens (Metropolitan District)
District: St. Helens (Metropolitan District)
To be known as: Rainford
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
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