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DRESS HOOK
Unique ID: BERK-9F6190
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper alloy early Post-medieval dress hook or hooked tag of Read (2008) Class E Type 6. The dress hook has a heart-shaped central body with t asmall fleur-type design at the curved peak of the heart. The external sides of the central body has moulded ribbed and knopped patterning. The head of the hooked tag is rectangular while the hook itself, although now broken, would have curved under back towards the main body. This dress hook is idenitcal to one recorded by Read (2008:112 no.452) and dates from AD 1500-1550.
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 1550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.15 mm
Width: 18.61 mm
Thickness: 1.69 mm
Weight: 2.1 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 14th February 2010
Rally details.
This object was found at Somerton 2010
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: 2009.460
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Oxfordshire (County)
District: Cherwell (District)
Parish or ward: Somerton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP4927
Four figure Latitude: 51.939354
Four figure longitude: -1.288628
1:25K map: SP4927
1:10K map: SP42NE
Grid reference source: Recorded at a rally
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
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