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Unique ID: BUC-103B43
Object type certainty: Certain
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A corroded post-medieval copper-alloy dress hook, incomplete following an old break at the junction of plate and hook. The plate survives with an integral trapezoidal loop. It has a hollow-backed oval body. Within a pellet border is a classical style female bust facing left (when the loop is lowermost). A similar dress hook can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 94; no. 336), broken in a similar place, and classified as his Early post-medieval Class E, Type 3. This artefact has light-green and off-white corrosion product over red-brown metal.
Class: Early post-medieval Class E, Type 3
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1575
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Quantity: 1
Length: 19 mm
Width: 13.77 mm
Thickness: 1.05 mm
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 25th September 2011
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Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
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Read, B. | 2008 | Hooked-Clasps and Eyes | Langport | Portcullis Publishing | 94 | 336 |