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DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Unique ID: WILT-8B5C9F
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
An early post medieval copper alloy eye section from a hooked tag dating to the period c AD 1540-1700. The tag is roughly leaf shaped with the bottom of the leaf truncated by a raised collar which forms one long side of the rectangular eye. There are three debased trefoil attachment knops, one either side and one at the point of the leaf (this one has the remnants of casting sprue along one edge). The tag has been tinned and has incised decoration comprising a spray of three flowers bordered by ring-and-dot motifs. Cf Read B, 2008, Hooked-Clasps & Eyes, Portcullis Publishing, Huish Episcopi p171 no 641.
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 1540
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 41.1 mm
Width: 28.82 mm
Thickness: 2.09 mm
Weight: 6 g
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: SSWM 4375
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Completeness: Complete
Surface Treatment: White metal coated
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
To be known as: Broughton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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