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HOOKED TAG
Unique ID: NLM-5D41E0
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Silver dress hook or hooked tag, Read early post-medieval Class D Type 7. Cast quatrefoil back plate with a hemispherical boss on each lobe, and a cast rectangular loop and tapered pointed pin, now bent backwards, soldered to the back. The loop behind bears a maker's mark of a cross potent, formed by the juxtaposition of eight strikes of an L shaped stamp.
Each boss bears three juxtaposed circles of twisted or cabled wire soldered to its front, these are obscured by damage on one boss. A bifurcated silver rivet passes through the centre of the plate, splayed behind to secure it and protruding on the display face to hold a separate central boss, now lost. Corrosion suggests this lost boss was of copper alloy. Post-Medieval, 1500-1600.
Length: 24.9mm, Width: 17mm, Thickness (overall, though clear of pin and loop): 3.7mm, Weight: 4.01g.
Class: Read early post-medieval Class D Type 7
Subsequent actions
Current location of find: Acquired by North Lincolnshire Museum
Subsequent action after recording: Acquired by museum after being declared Treasure
Treasure details
Treasure case tracking number: 2013T531
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24.9 mm
Width: 17 mm
Thickness: 3.7 mm
Weight: 4.01 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 11th August 2013
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: NLM23135a
Treasure case number: 2013T531
Materials and construction
Primary material: Silver
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Floral
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
District: North Lincolnshire (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Winterton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE9219
Four figure Latitude: 53.659406
Four figure longitude: -0.609297
1:25K map: SE9219
1:10K map: SE91NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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