English: An incomplete copper-alloy harbick (or havette/shear-board hook) of late Medieval date. It is missing both ends due to old breaks. The object comprises a central bar or grip that is rectangular in form and section. On the three external faces that would have been visible when the hook was in use there is incised decoration comprising a central cross saltire or X, flanked by two or three vertical grooves. From each end of the central grip extend rectangular arms that are narrower than the grip and begin to taper before terminating in old breaks. These would have originally extended to form sharply hooked terminals to enable the hook to function. This object measures 39.43mm in surviving length, 4.93mm in height at grip, 4.54mm in width/thickness at grip, and 3.08g in weight.

This is an incomplete harbick or havette/shear-board hook of later Medieval date. It would have functioned as a double ended hook to secure cloth in the production of textiles to enable the fuller to shear the nap. Similar examples have been recorded from Winchester (Biddle, 1990: 239-240) and are classified by Read (2008: pp. 202-205, nos. 738-742) as his Class A Type 1 havettes. See also exampls recorded through the PAS, for example NMS-F49C14. The current example is of probable 15th-16th century AD date.