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HOOKED TAG
Unique ID: NARC-DE0C02
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A complete copper alloy Dress Hook of late Medieval to Post-Medieval date (AD 1500-1700). Read's Class E, Type 3. The main plate is broadly circular with five perforations to each side of the central panel. A chequered lozenge with a potentially engraved edge is in the centre of the body. From the lower edge of the circular plate an integral, rectangular sectioned collard shaft extends. The lower section of the hook recurves and tapers to a point.
Length: 34.93mm, Width: 15.77mm, Thickness: 1.90mm, Weight: 2.0g
The metal is mid-green in colour with a slightly pitted patina.
Hooked Clasps & Eyes' B. Read, 2008 p104
Class: Class E, Type 3
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: POST MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Late
Period to: POST MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1500
Date to: Circa AD 1700
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 34.93 mm
Width: 15.77 mm
Thickness: 1.9 mm
Weight: 2 g
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Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Openwork
Completeness: Complete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Northamptonshire (County)
District: Daventry (District)
Parish or ward: Dodford (Civil Parish)
Spatial coordinates
4 Figure: SP6061
Four figure Latitude: 52.2439226
Four figure longitude: -1.12266107
1:25K map: SP6061
1:10K map: SP66SW
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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