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DRESS HOOK
Unique ID: NMS-0A9F69
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Incomplete post medieval copper alloy dress hook of Read's Class E, Type 3 dating to the period c. AD 1500 - 1600. The circular plate exhibits an openwork design consisting of an equal armed cross with a central pellet and four circualr apertures in each quarter. The edge of the plate is beaded and engrailed, with a trapezoidal attachment loop projecting from one side and a tapering hook projecting from the other. The hook terminates in an old break.
See Read, B, 2008, p. 99, no. 370.
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32 mm
Width: 17.5 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 2.2 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 9th December 2017 - Saturday 9th December 2017
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Other reference numbers
SMR reference number: 62296
Other reference: NHRG122017
Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Norfolk (County)
District: Great Yarmouth (District)
Parish or ward: Rollesby (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TG4415
Four figure Latitude: 52.67771375
Four figure longitude: 1.60807321
1:25K map: TG4415
1:10K map: TG41NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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