Record ID: LVPL-4A0113
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: St. Helens
Workflow stage: 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 fro…
Created on: Friday 7th February 2014
Last updated: Thursday 1st June 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rainford', grid reference and parish protected.