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English: Fragment of a cast silver gilt domed terminal from a dress pin or dress hook with two petals and two pellets remaining from a cluster of flowers within raised circular borders that touch at the apex. One of the pellets is in the arc between the circles and one is at the centre of the flower. The circular borders are not granulated or made of twisted gold wire, so it appears that there is no filigree work that has been applied to the surface of the domed terminal, and the decoration looks instead to have been cast. The circles are 8 mm in diameter, the petals are 4 mm in diameter and the pellets are 1.3 mm in diameter and 1 mm high. The fragment is plain on the interior and retains a curved profile, suggesting it was part of one half of a spherical terminal of a dress pin or a hemi-spherical boss of a dress hook. There are patches of gilding within the petals and in the sections between the petals and the encompassing circle.

Similar cast dress pin domes have been recorded on to the database in GLO-AC41D8 (2014 T250), and dress hook bosses in LON-9A0A86, which are dated from the 16th century.

The most similar in style, with four smaller petals within the surrounded circle, is an example from Devon (2004 T94) which is referred to and illustrated in the Treasure Annual Report (2004) on pages 132 & 292, Fig.287, and is dated from the 16th century.