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DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Unique ID: SUSS-56C670
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
An incomplete copper-alloy Post Medieval decorative dress hook, c. mid-16th-17th century AD. The remains of the dress hook consists of the one-piece, shallow convex decorated plate, which is formed into the shape of an acorn, with a debased trefoil attachment knop and circular hole at the apex of the acorn and two further circular attachment-knops with circular holes positioned opposite one another at the base of the acorn. The two base attachment-knops flank the remaining fragment of the sub-rectangular blunt hook, which has broken at the bottom edge as it turns upwards; the hook would have ended in a flat-end. The acorn shape of the plate is emphasised with a set of two incised parallel horizontal lines delineating the upper acorn segment from the lower husk. The husk is further decorated with a series of incised intersecting transverse lines. The reverse is concave and undecorated. The dress hook is generally complete save for the broken blunt hook. The dress hook measures 38.31 mm long, 23.03 mm maximum width (at base loops), 3.5 mm thick and weighs 5.11 grams.
Cf. Read 2008, 'Hooked-Clasps and Eyes', p. 175, nos. 660-661.
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 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 38.31 mm
Width: 23.03 mm
Thickness: 3.5 mm
Weight: 5.11 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 16th November 2014
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: East Sussex (County)
District: Lewes (District)
Parish or ward: Ringmer (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ4512
Four figure Latitude: 50.88929425
Four figure longitude: 0.06017966
1:25K map: TQ4512
1:10K map: TQ41SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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