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DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Unique ID: KENT-C7BEBA
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper-alloy hooked tag of Post-Medieval date. It has asub rectangular plate with integral rectangular sewing lug at the upper edge, and integral hook at the base. The plate has a moulded relife desing with a pellet in the center and four radiating T-shaped arms forming a cross with two pellets in each corner; all within a linear border. At the base of the plate the integral hook has a ribbed collor.
The hooked tag is 30.3mm long, 12.9mm wide, 2.1mm thick and weighs 1.71 grams.
This is a hooked tag of Post-Medieval date that finds a close by Read (2008) in particualr ref 357. These are placed by him in his Early Post-Medieval Class E Type 3 hooked tag group and dated to the Post-Medieval period, c.16th-17th centuries AD.
Class: Read Class E, Type 3
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 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 30.3 mm
Width: 12.9 mm
Thickness: 2.1 mm
Weight: 1.71 g
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Kent (County)
District: Folkestone and Hythe (District)
Parish or ward: Lyminge (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TR1640
Four figure Latitude: 51.11855516
Four figure longitude: 1.08497369
1:25K map: TR1640
1:10K map: TR14SE
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, B. | 2008 | Hooked-Clasps and Eyes | Langport | Portcullis Publishing | 97 | 357 |
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