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.