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DRESS HOOK
Unique ID: OXON-C322D6
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Post Medieval (16th and early 17th centuries) dress hook: The copper alloy, cast dress hook has a moulded trefoil (formed by ropework) with openwork with an integral sub-trapezoidal loop protruding from the upper edge of the dress hook body. The reverse of the body is flat. The lower leaf of the trefoil has a long, slender hook protruding, which is incomplete. The break is not recent. The surface of the dress hook has dark brown matte surface.
The dress hook measures 28.69mm in length, 18.73mm in width and 3.66mm in thickness of the hook and weighs 1.81g
Margeson (1993) illustrates similar dated dress hooks, Nos. 71 to 75, and dates these types of objects to the late 16th to 17th centuries. Read (2008) illustrates a similar designs, Nos. 436-438 and classifies them as Class E Type 5 dating them to the 16th and early 17th centuries.
Margeson, S., 1993. Norwich Households; Medieval and Post Medieval Finds from Norwich Survey Excavations 1971-78. East Anglian Archaeology Report No. 58. Norwich: Norwich Survey/Norfolk Museums Service
Read, B., 2008. Hooked-Clasps and Eyes Somerset: Portcullis Publishing
Class: Read Class E Type 5
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1625
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.69 mm
Width: 18.73 mm
Thickness: 3.66 mm
Weight: 1.81 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 1st March 2021 - Wednesday 31st March 2021
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Buckinghamshire (County)
District: Aylesbury Vale (District)
Parish or ward: Boarstall (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP6214
Four figure Latitude: 51.82119352
Four figure longitude: -1.10187653
1:25K map: SP6214
1:10K map: SP61SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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