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English: Post-medieval silver-gilt cap-hook. Circular back-plate with separate soldered domed front decorated with twisted filigree wire and pellets. Three large circles of wire, each containing a central pellet (one surviving) with wire annulet, surrounded by six (in one circle) and seven (in two) further wire annulets. Around the edge between each of the large wire circles is a pellet surrounded by a wire annulet with three pellets around the edge. There is a large central pellet at the apex of the domed front-plate.

On the reverse is a separate soldered circular-sectioned hook, now broken, but no evidence for a loop, indicating that this is a cap-hook and not a dress-hook. Gilding survives on the front, back and part of the hook.

Diameter 17.5mm. Height (excluding hook) 10mm. Weight 5.8g. 16th century.

The decoration is similar to that on a heart-shaped dress-hook from New Romney, Kent (Gaimster et al, 2002, 162, fig.3) and many other examples of composite silver-gilt dress-hooks with filigree wire and pellet decoration have been recorded.