Rights Holder: The Portable Antiquities Scheme
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Unique ID: BERK-4A4C82
Object type certainty: Certain
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A cast copper alloy dress fastener with a white metal coating c. 1550 - 1650 AD. This example is described in Read's as an Early Post Medieval Class A Type 1a with a single blunt-hook and eye clasps. The surface is heavily eroded with fragment of a silver coating and ferrous staining beneath.
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Early
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Middle
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1650
Quantity: 1
Length: 27.74 mm
Width: 13.2 mm
Weight: 1.9 g
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Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: White metal
Manufacture method: Hand made
Completeness: Complete
4 Figure: SU6079
Four figure Latitude: 51.50675504
Four figure longitude: -1.13688793
1:25K map: SU6079
1:10K map: SU67NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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