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DRESS HOOK

Unique ID: CORN-BB7DE3

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Awaiting validation

Cast copper alloy clothes hook fastener with knotted rope design. The 'rope' is twisted into an asymmetrical quatrefoil openwork, creating three tear-shaped loops, and one semi-circular loop, below a cross bar, which would have allowed the fastener to have been attached onto the garment. At either end of the cross bar, between the bar and the end of each strand of rope, there is a moulded boss in the form of a rosette with five petals.
Read (1988) illustrates a similar example on page 118, No.759, which he dates to the 15th-17th century.
Bailey (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 93, Fig.12.1, which he dates to the 16th century

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: AD 1600

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 36.6 mm
Width: 19.6 mm
Thickness: 2.8 mm
Weight: 2.66 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Monday 2nd June 2003

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast

Spatial metadata

Region: South West (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
District: Cornwall (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Hayle (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SW5638
Four figure Latitude: 50.191633
Four figure longitude: -5.41985
1:25K map: SW5638
1:10K map: SW58SE
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land

References cited

Author	Publication Year	Title	Publication Place	Publisher	Pages	Reference
Bailey, G.	2004	Buttons and Fasteners 500BC - AD1840	Essex	Greenlight Publishing	93,	Fig.12.1
Read, B.	1988	History Beneath Our Feet (1988)	Braunton	Merlin	118,	No.759

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Created: 18 years ago
Updated: 8 years ago

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