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HOOKED TAG
Unique ID: SWYOR-3260C8
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A lead alloy and iron hooked tag dating from the early post-medieval period, AD 1500 - 1600. The main body of the dress hook is made of lead alloy and is trefoil in shape. Surrounding each of the domed lobes of the trefoil are a series of pellets forming a beaded border. There is also a larger pellet in the centre, flanked by three pellets, one between each pair of lobes. The back of the dress hook is flat and has a projecting rectangular attachment loop, extending backwards rather than upwards. A vertical ridge on the reverse forms a tube into which the iron hook was fitted. Only a fragment of the iron survives. A very similar but complete example is DUR-49FB12 which is classified as a Read Class D, Type 6 hooked clasp (Read 2008: 76), similar to number 252.
The dress hook is 24.9mm long, 22.1mm wide and 13.8mm thick. 12.92g. Compare also DOR-A93005 and LANCUM-23D537. These dress hooks would have been desinded to imitate filigree decorated silver gilt examples.
Class: Read Class D, type 6
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 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 24.9 mm
Width: 22.1 mm
Thickness: 13.8 mm
Weight: 12.92 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st February 2014 - Thursday 14th August 2014
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: PAS form number 2249
Materials and construction
Primary material: Lead Alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Yorkshire and the Humber (European Region)County or Unitary authority: North Yorkshire (County)
District: Selby (District)
Parish or ward: Huddleston with Newthorpe (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SE4634
Four figure Latitude: 53.80027654
Four figure longitude: -1.30307639
1:25K map: SE4634
1:10K map: SE43SE
Grid reference source: Centred on field
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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