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DRESS HOOK
Unique ID: NMS-8C3FF6
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Post-medieval copper alloy dress hook. Openwork with trapezoidal attachment loop and openwork plate in the form of a trefoil knot, long sharp-ended ghook bent back on itself. Read (2008) Class E, Type 5, (110, no.438). Width 18mm. 17th century.
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 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Width: 18 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 8th October 2012 - Monday 8th October 2012
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: IND08102012ED
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TF4223
Four figure Latitude: 52.785901
Four figure longitude: 0.104141
1:25K map: TF4223
1:10K map: TF42SW
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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