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DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Unique ID: SF-CCF795
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval hooked tag of Read's Early Medieval Class D Type 3 (Read, 2008: p. 29). It is missing one sewing lug and the hook is bent forwards due to post-depositional damage. The object has a flat, lozenge shaped plate, at the top of which are two projecting oval sewing lugs with central circular apertures, one of which is now incomplete. The front face has decoration comprising a single central vertical zig-zagline, with additional single vertical zig-zag running down each side of the plate. At the base of the plate is the integrally cast hook. This is D-shaped in section with flat back and rounded front face, tapering to a rear facing hook that has been partially folded forwards due to post-depositional damage. The entire object has a dark green patina. It measures 22.99mm in length, 8.75mm in width, 0.54mm in thickness, and 0.37g in weight.
This is an incomplete Early-Medieval hooked tag. It finds parallels in a near identical example from Suffolk published by Read (2008: no. 121; SF-084921) and is of c.9th-12th century AD date.
Class: Read Class D Type 3
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 800
Date to: Circa AD 1200
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 22.99 mm
Width: 8.75 mm
Thickness: 0.54 mm
Weight: 0.37 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st February 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Forest Heath (District)
To be known as: Icklingham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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