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DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Unique ID: KENT-E878A1
Object type certainty: Certain
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An incomplete and heavily worn Post Medieval cast pewter or high tin/lead copper-alloy dress hook c.AD1550-1700.
Description: Class A, type 2 dress hook. The main section has a floral design which has pellets in the field, the dots also appear on the leaves and stem of the flower. The hook has been damaged, likely in antiquity, with the end of the blunt hook missing. There are three rivet holes placed either side of the main plate near the hook end and one at the back end. The reverse is flat and undecorated; the hook is a mid grey colour.
Dimensions: Length 39.45mm, width 26.99mm, thickness 2.9mm (including blunt hook projection, 1.71mm without) and weight 4.68g.
Discussion: Read (2008: 170-171) illustrates a number of similar examples nos. 639-644, which are dated from the mid 16th to 17th 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 1550
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39.45 mm
Width: 26.99 mm
Thickness: 2.9 mm
Weight: 4.68 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Tin or tin alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Floral
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Medway (Unitary Authority)
District: Medway (Unitary Authority)
Parish or ward: Cliffe and Cliffe Woods (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TQ7374
Four figure Latitude: 51.43857839
Four figure longitude: 0.48770425
1:25K map: TQ7374
1:10K map: TQ77SW
Grid reference source: Generated from computer mapping software
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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