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DRESS HOOK
Unique ID: NMS-AD7BB4
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Pos-medieval copper alloy dress hook. Oval, openwork plate, broken accross attachment loop at one end and accross wide, blunt hook at the other. Read's (2008, 182) Class A, Type 14, similar to no.694 but with a cmall central lozengiform aperture. Width 19mm. Survivng length 34mm. c. 17th century.
Class: Read's (2008) Class A, Type 14.
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 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34 mm
Width: 19 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Wednesday 23rd January 2013 - Wednesday 20th February 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: DDMD022013
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Waveney (District)
Parish or ward: Blyford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TM4376
Four figure Latitude: 52.32824
Four figure longitude: 1.564858
1:25K map: TM4376
1:10K map: TM47NW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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