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DRESS HOOK
Unique ID: NMS-900C42
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Early post-medieval copper alloy hooked tag, slightly bent, cast with rectangular loop at upper end of openwork rectangular plate with five circular perforations and two further perforations through shoulders at springing of hook, 15 x 33mm. Late 16th/17th century.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1550
Date to: AD 1699
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 33 mm
Width: 15 mm
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 17th May 2004
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 40528
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: North Norfolk (District)
To be known as: Happisburgh
Spatial coordinates
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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