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English: An almost complete copper-alloy drees hook dating to the post-medieval period. The artefact has survived well with most of its attributes intact: body, rectangular attachment loop, recurving hook (truncated at the tip). The body consists of a central berry-like cross-hatched motif in a V-shaped moulding surrounded by an openwork rosette; there is a fleur-de-lis motif at the edge of the loop. The reverse is flat, punctuated by four perforations to each side of the berry motif of slightly varying sizes. The hook is trapezoidal in cross-section, with bevelled sides on its upper surface. The metal has a variable mid-green patina. As well as having lost its tip the hook has been been slightly to one side.

This design of hooked tag has been found in a context dated by ceramic evidence to the late 16th century in London (Egan 2005, 44; ref. 153), and an early 17th-century context in Norwich (Margeson 1993, 17; ref. 72). Egan (2005, 44) also refers to similar examples found in the Netherlands (cf. also Read 2008, 104; ref. 402, classified as his Early post-medieval Class E, Type 3 (circular)).