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Unique ID: FAKL-8CE234
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Published
Hooked clasp or tag made from copper alloy wire. Body consists of four parallel strands of oval sectioned wires, 2.2 x 1.7mm, one end bent back to form a hook, the other scrolled around to form a central loop flanked by curls. The four wires are secured by a 25.0mm long band of wound wire 1.0 x 0.7mm . Read Class E Type 3 cf. No. 147.
Class: wound wire
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Exactly AD 1650
Quantity: 1
Length: 48 mm
Width: 21.8 mm
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Weight: 8.13 g
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Other reference: B077
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Incomplete
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
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 | 147 |