Suffolk County Council, Gemma Stewart, 2014-06-10 13:49:11
Title
Dress hook
Description
English: A complete silver-gilt dress hook of composite construction. It consists of a circular cast plate with an integral rectangular loop and eight decorative projecting circular knops around its edge. Held onto the front of the plate, via a dome-headed rivet, is a domed six-petalled openwork flower. The rivet also holds a separate circular back plate onto the reverse of the cast plate, which has a separate hook soldered to its lower edge.
Depicted place
(County of findspot) Suffolk
Date
between 1500 and 1600
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1600-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 620181 Old ref: SF-EF29F4 Filename: HLY_SF-EF29F4.jpg
Credit line
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Attribution: The Portable Antiquities Scheme/ The Trustees of the British Museum
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