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DRESS HOOK
Unique ID: LVPL-16EEF8
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published 
A cast silver gilt dress hook dating to the early Post-Medieval period. The object consists of a silver lozenge shaped reverse plate with a hollow domed sheeting obverse plate. The obverse plate is decorated with five twisted wire circles enclosing a three leafed twisted wire flower with a raised central pellet. Two-three more raised pellets are placed randomly inside the wire circle. Each of the five flowers within circles are domed. Three smaller wire circles are interspersed between the larger wire circles each with a pellet within or next to it. A fourth pellet between two or the larger wire circles is not enclosed.
The back-plate of the object has engrailed edges and trefoil knops on the apexes. The projecting sections of the engrailed edges are decorated with two small linear grooves. The back-plate (pierced by a single central hole), has a raised transverse bar and rearward curved hook soldered onto the rear. The tip of the hook which is complete has been bent sideways slightly.
The object can be classified as Read's early Post-Medieval Class D, Type 3, Read, (2008). A similar example from Wrexham, Wales, was found in about 1980 so falls outside the remit of the Treasure Act, Spencer, J (2007) CPAT-922557 A POST MEDIEVAL DRESS HOOK Webpage available at: http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/195166. A further example from Cheshire, 2002 T303, qualified as treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act, p66, Read, (2008).
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Nantwich Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Acquired by museum after being declared Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2012T655
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Exactly AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 29 mm
Width: 26 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight: 7.9 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 1st August 2012
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Other reference numbers
Treasure case number: 2012T655
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: Gilded
Spatial metadata
Region: North West (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
District: Cheshire East (Unitary Authority)
To be known as: Nantwich
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, B. | 2008 | Hooked-Clasps and Eyes | Langport | Portcullis Publishing |
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