Record ID: LVPL-B16A24
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver-gilt dress-hook . The object is lozenge shaped in plan. It consists of a cast back-plate with a large trefoil knop on each apex and a smaller version in the centre of each side. The trefoil knop from the centre of one side is missing due to a recent break. Either side of each central trefoil knop is a single rounded knop; some of these have a faceted outer face while some have been worn down. In the centre of the plate is a circular perforation with an internal diameter of 3.03mm. Surrounding the perforation the outer face of the back plate is uneven with shallow g…
Created on: Tuesday 18th November 2014
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bostock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-8C22D9
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure number 2014 T746. A cast openwork silver-gilt dress accessory. The body is rectangular with thin borders along the short sides and a concave thicker border along the one long side. The body is decorated with intertwining foliate design. Emerging from the centre is a larger foliate design that is sub rectangular, which takes a similar form to an oak tree profile or a large leaf. The reverse is plain and a transverse attachment bar has been soldered onto the short sides across back of the large foliate design. The bar is flat and rectangular in cross section. It is also poss…
Created on: Thursday 23rd October 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Buttercrambe with Bossall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-859AC5
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Read Class B, Type 2 dress hook dating to the early Post-Medieval period. The object is cast in two pieces with a silver circular sheet and a separate hooked-section. The circular sheet is surrounded by twisted wire filigree. The object is decorated with a central cross, in the centre of which is the base of a circular rivet which attaches the hook. Within each angle of the cross is an oval silver wire cell, each of which are in filled with a white enamel or stone. The cross, also of silver wire is also likely to have been infilled with enamel or stone which is now missing, a…
Created on: Friday 30th May 2014
Last updated: Friday 27th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tiverton', grid reference and parish protected.

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.

Record ID: LVPL-16EEF8
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: 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 …
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 8th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nantwich', grid reference and parish protected.