Food hook

A wooden suspension device consisting of a central vertical shaft, perforated for suspension near the top and terminating at the bottom in a broadened tip, from the upper outer edges of which two prongs rise vertically on opposite sides of the shaft and turn outwards at their tips. The whole item is decorated with raised and incised decoration, fairly coarsely rendered. The central shaft is enlarged by two wider sections above the perforation and one below; these have horizontal lines of decorative notches around them. The remainder of the shaft above the prongs is carved with narrow parallel vertical ridges which in turn have notched surfaces. One of these ridges extends down each side of the lower part of the shaft to the tip and similar ridges extend up the outer central ridges of the prongs. The sides of the tip and prongs are decorated with bands of small round indentations.