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DRESS HOOK
Unique ID: SUR-28EFAD
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A copper alloy cast one piece dress hook, with a convex domed boss with moulded relief decoration in the form of an IHC Christogram in lombardic script, surrounded by a cabled border. The loop, which would have been trapezoidal, is missing. As Read (2008) p91, number 310.
Class: Read Class E, Type 3.
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: Circa AD 1600
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 32.9 mm
Height: 6.5 mm
Width: 12.5 mm
Thickness: 1.9 mm
Weight: 1.25 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 16th February 2019
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Essex (County)
District: Uttlesford (District)
Parish or ward: Little Hallingbury (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL5117
Four figure Latitude: 51.83120879
Four figure longitude: 0.18997035
1:25K map: TL5117
1:10K map: TL51NW
Grid reference source: From finder
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Read, B. | 2008 | Hooked-Clasps and Eyes | Langport | Portcullis Publishing |
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