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DRESS HOOK
Unique ID: WAW-181918
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy Post Medieval dress hook. The body of the dress hook is sub-circular in plan with moulded scalloped edges and a high-relief annulet on the outer face surrounded by sub-circular shaped openwork. The reverse of the body is flat and undecorated. The upper edge of the body has an incomplete integral rectangular loop. The loop allows the dress hook to be stitched to the garment. Integral to the lower edge of the body is the hook. This protrudes from the centre of the lower edge and is sub semi-circular in section. The hook terminal curls towards the reverse of the dress hook, but is possibly incomplete. The surface of the dress hook has traces of a light green patina, otherwise the surface is abraded. The dress hook measures 23.81mm long and 15.55mm wide across the body. It weighs 1.6g.
Margeson (Margeson, S. 1993 Norwich Households: Medieval and Post Medieval Finds From Norwich Survey, Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology 58) illustrates a similar dated dress hooks, Nos. 71 to 75, and dates these types of objects to the late 16th to 17th centuries.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1575
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 23.81 mm
Width: 15.55 mm
Weight: 1.6 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 5th November 2012 - Monday 7th January 2013
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Worcestershire (County)
District: Wychavon (District)
Parish or ward: Abberton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO9953
Four figure Latitude: 52.17525658
Four figure longitude: -2.0160403
1:25K map: SO9953
1:10K map: SO95SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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