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DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Unique ID: NMS-5F5159
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Copper alloy late medieval to early post medieval double sharp hooked clasp (Read Class S type 1). Lozengiform body (39mm x 39.5mm across angles) with a 4mm x 52mm double-hooked strip running across the angles and riveted to the centre of the reverse. The front of the rivet is raised whilst the reverse is flush. The clasp strip is made by folding the sides of a wider sheet into the centre to give double thickness with the sharpened ends looped back 180 degrees to form the hooks. The surface of the body is decorated around the border with linear regular rocker arm wriggle-work. Similarly each halfway point along the sides is joined to its opposite and the junctions with the border are joined to each other. A very similar clasp is shown in Read, B. Hooks Clasps and Eyes, p134. Circa 15th century to early 16th century AD.
Class:
Class S
Sub class: type 1
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1400
Date to: Circa AD 1550
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 52 mm
Width: 39.5 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Sunday 21st February 2016 - Sunday 21st February 2016
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 25624
Other reference: GC
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: South Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Near Taverham
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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