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DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Unique ID: FAKL-689226
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Published 
Copper alloy dress hook, Post Medieval (1600-1700), leaf shaped, cast in low relief with a central plant/flower motif, rectangular eye to accomodate the hook, three attachment loops. cf. Read 2008, 175-177. Length 35.6mm, Width 18.8mm, Thickness 1.8mm, Mass 3.81g.
Class: Read Class A Type 8
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Middle
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1600
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 35.6 mm
Width: 18.8 mm
Thickness: 1.8 mm
Weight: 3.81 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 26th August 2017
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: Birm 548
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: West Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Worcestershire (County)
District: Bromsgrove (District)
Parish or ward: Dodford with Grafton (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SO9270
Four figure Latitude: 52.32803293
Four figure longitude: -2.11881158
1:25K map: SO9270
1:10K map: SO97SW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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