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DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Unique ID: PUBLIC-4924C3
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A cast copper-alloy hooked tag of Post-Medieval date. It has a rectangular plate with integral rectangular sewing lug at the upper edge, and integral hook at the base. The plate has four notches along each edge and a large central rectangular boss. This has a central rectangular projection decorated with a single vertical groove with multiple diagonal grooves to each side, almost resembling a foliate motif. At the base of the plate the integral hook has a semi-circular collar with dome-shaped boss on the front face. The hook itself is D-shaped in section and curves backwards to a pointed tip. The entire object measures 28.16mm in length, 12.84mm in width, 4.42mm in thickness, and 2.98g in weight.
This is a hooked tag of Post-Medieval date that finds close parallels in a number of examples published by Read (2008: nos. 294-297). These are placed by him in his Early Post-Medieval Class E Type 1 hooked tag group and dated to the Post-Medieval period, c.16th-17th centuries AD.
Class: Read Class E Type 1
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 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 28.16 mm
Width: 12.84 mm
Thickness: 4.42 mm
Weight: 2.98 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 29th March 2019
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
Parish or ward: Woolpit (District Ward)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: TL9862
Four figure Latitude: 52.22060995
Four figure longitude: 0.89724473
1:25K map: TL9862
1:10K map: TL96SE
Grid reference source: GPS (from the finder)
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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