Record ID: NMGW-B81A3D
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver gilt hat-hook or cap-hook in the form of a pointed pentafoil-shaped flower, soldered to a pin shaft (incomplete) with swan-neck bends. Gilding extend to the back and the pin shaft. Overall dimensions: flower diameter 9.4mm; height 5.5mm; pin shaft diameter 1.3mm; weight 1.23g. Badges and ornaments created to adorn the hats of male Tudor elite are identifiable by the lack of a bar attached to a back-plate - usually found on Tudor dress hooks (Gaimster et al 2002). However, versions of the point flower do occur on sixteenth-century dress-hooks (for example, Gaimster et al…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 31st October 2019
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Record ID: NMGW-C595D8
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt dress-hook with a thin back-plate cut from a sheet, cusped around the edge. The back-plate supports a hollow, cast heart-shaped boss. On the reverse of the back plate can be seen the scar for the silver hook which was originally soldered to the plate. The bar loop is complete. The hollow heart supports filigree ornament of circlets within larger circles, and raised silver pellets. Larger pellets occur in the spaces between the filigree circlets. Gilding is partial on the back. Overall dimensions 15.8 x 19mm; height including loop 16.5mm; internal width of loop 10mm; wei…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 20th September 2017
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Record ID: NMGW-49287A
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy dress-hook of 17th century date The dress-hook is near complete (with a length of 27.5mm and a weight of 2.0g) and the loop is sub-rectangular with undulating sides (with a width of 13.9mm). The loop is an irregular oval and the midsection is decorated with two raised knops (Giving a thickness of 2.0mm) before two attachment holes near the hook. The hook is forward projecting (with a depth of 6.2mm). The surface has a grey-green to dark-green corroded patina.
Created on: Monday 2nd March 2015
Last updated: Monday 2nd March 2015
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Record ID: NMGW-C884A8
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Published
The dress-hook is of trefoil form and is near-complete missing the central knop securing the components and is now fragmentary. At the apex, is a silver plate of floral, sexfoil form (8.1nmm diameter and 1.0mm thick), previously secured by the central rivet but now loose (6.5mm long and 1.4mm diameter). The plate has incised radial lines. The three hemispherical lobes are decorated with filigree arranged in circular patterns each of which contains three inner-circles and with raised pellets at the centres and between the circular devices. The backing plate has a border around the thre…
Created on: Tuesday 25th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2016
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Record ID: NMGW-BA0EC6
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt dress-hook with a square-shaped back-plate cut from a sheet and cusped around the edge, which is perforated. A separate hook and bar loop have been soldered to the back. Attached to the front of the plate by solder is a hollow silver gilt box with three panels, each decorated with a pair of hollow hemispherical bosses, surrounded by fine filigree and plain rods demarcating panels. The is a cast fleur-de-lys above the pin and the junction with the base, and there are pellets between the bosses. The back of the baseplate is engraved with an 'X' or 'V' and an 'ω', presumably…
Created on: Friday 2nd August 2013
Last updated: Sunday 20th October 2013
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Record ID: NMGW-B9F012
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt dress-hook with a quatrefoil-shaped back-plate cut from a sheet, to which (on the reverse) a separate hook and bar loop had been soldered (now missing; the attachment scars are visible). Each petal bears a hollow boss, each bearing three filigree circlets (each encircling a single pellet, centrally placed). A silver hexafoil, not gilded so that it contrasts with its support, is fastened by silver wire, which passes through a central perforation and is then bent in opposite directions. Gilding extends to the back. Maximum width of back-plate 20mm; boss height 4.2 to 4.8mm; w…
Created on: Friday 2nd August 2013
Last updated: Tuesday 26th November 2013
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Record ID: NMGW-0A75C8
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Pembrokeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt dress-hook with a lozenge-shaped back-plate cut from a sheet and cusped around the edge, to which (on the reverse) a separate hook and bar loop have been soldered. Attached to the front of the plate by solder is a hollow, lozenge-shaped silver gilt box with chamfered sides. The top is decorated with four single-strand 'rope-twist' filigree wire circlets, arranged around hollow hemispherical bosses, and small granulated pellets. Similar decoration occurs on the bevels. Gilding does not extend along the full length to the hook.
Created on: Friday 15th January 2010
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
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Record ID: NMGW-B0C420
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: the Vale of Glamorgan
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt decorative roundel which once adorned the front of a dress-hook loop, to the back of which are soldered three sections of wire (which when complete formed the trefoil loop for the hook). The slightly domed silver gilt boss has a border of 'cable-twist' filigree wire, wound in a spiral to create two strands. Within this, there are five cable-twist 'filigree' wire circlets, and a small granulated pellet in the interspace. Metal content: silver, 96%; copper, 4%.
Created on: Thursday 5th February 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 24th July 2013
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Record ID: NMGW3163
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper alloy dress hook of unusual form. The body of the hook consists of a long rectangular plate decorated with a carelessly applied, punched cross/chevron decoration, which is perforated at one end by a circular fixing hole (Diameter 3.5mm) and narrows through a moulded waist into a curved hook at the other. Length 70mm, maximum width 8mm. Probably sixteenth century in date; possibly later (M. Redknap Pers. Comm.). The hook is of unusual form and it has not been possible to find a closely-dated parallel.
Created on: Tuesday 29th May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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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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