Dress hook
- Description
- This Saxon dress hook is one of several discovered during excavations in Exeter, and they are quite common finds across Britain. The three pierced holes allowed the hook to be stitched to clothing, but it is uncertain exactly how they were used.
- Accession Loan No.
- 300/1988/M120
- Collection Class
- Exeter archaeology
- Common Name
- dress hook
- Simple Name
- fastening
- Full Name
- hooked fastener, ?dress hook
- Dimensions
- whole length 19 mm; whole W 13 mm; whole H 3 mm
- Period Classification
- Anglo-Saxon (400-1066)
- Family Group
- Material
- copper alloy
- Collector / Excavator
- Exeter Museums Archaeological Field Unit
- Collection Site Name
- Goldsmith Street
- Collection Town
- Exeter
- Collection County
- Devon
- Collection Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Collection Area Region
- Northern Europe
- Collection Continent
- Europe