English: 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 larger wire circles is not enclosed.

The back-plate of the object has engrailed edges and trefoil knops on the apexes. The projecting sections of the engrailed edges are decorated with two small linear grooves. The back-plate (pierced by a single central hole), has a raised transverse bar and rearward curved hook soldered onto the rear. The tip of the hook which is complete has been bent sideways slightly.

The object can be classified as Read's early Post-Medieval Class D, Type 3, Read, (2008). A similar example from Wrexham, Wales, was found in about 1980 so falls outside the remit of the Treasure Act, Spencer, J (2007) CPAT-922557 A POST MEDIEVAL DRESS HOOK Webpage available at: <a href="http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/195166.">http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/195166.</a> A further example from Cheshire, 2002 T303, qualified as treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act, p66, Read, (2008).