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Record ID: NMGW3157
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Merthyr Tydfil
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy dress hook or clothing fastener. The fastener consists of a double waisted sub-rectangular plate and a sharp integral hook. The plate is perforated by two iron rivets. Length 44mm, width 12mm. Dress hooks were, and to a limited degree still are, used for fastening items of clothing. Those hooks with sharp tips were probably used with cords or hooked directly into the material they fastened, while those hooks with blunt ends were probably used in conjunction with eyelets. Dress hooks are one of those unusual types of finds which enjoyed two separate periods of use in the pa…
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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