Wmid-d46a92 - Post Medieval dress hook

An incomplete copper alloy dress hook, of Early Post Medieval dating (AD 1600 to AD 1700). This is the hook section of such fasteners, with its rectangular blunt hook truncated. The central area of the plate has a raised foliate design with a central quartered berry and four leaves in cross formation with four small circular berries in the angles. This design is within a broadly lozengiform line border formed of four lines with scrolled ends; at the middle corners these form a pair of projecting rounded knops at either side. There are two pierced lobes flanking the start of the hook, one either side of a billeted transverse band. At the opposite end to the hook is a third pierced lobe with projecting scrolled terminals to either side, giving a fleur-de-lis terminal. For more information, please visit the online database record available at: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/1072771