Casgliadau Arlein

Incomplete composite silver-gilt dress-hook (hook missing) with a lozenge-shaped back, to which rope-twist filigree decoration had been soldered (3-strand filigree wire) bordered by three circlets and granulated pellets in the corners, and 3 circlets on the four hollow, hemisperical bosses. There is one surviving large pellet at the end of one of the straight filigree strands. There is a central perforation for a decorative knop, probably a flower head, which is now missing. There are two punched or engraved amarks (11?) on the reverse from the manufacturing process for the plate. Gilding does not extend to the back. There is a split along one of the punched lines beneath the former location of a strand of filigree, and no evident traces of attchment point for the hook (unless it was in one with the central knop stem).