Record ID: DOR-C05245
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy blunt hooked dress fastener. A Read Class A, Type 2 clasp. It comprises an oval plate which is squared at one end where it narrows into a the remnant of a forward curving rectangular blunt hook at one end. The the plate is flanked by two attachment loops, one on either side towards the the end where the hook emerges with a third attachment loop at the apex of the plate at the opposite end. All the attachment loops have a central circular hole. The front of the plate is decorated with a chequered design and may have been gilded or enamelled to give contra…
Created on: Saturday 21st January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-4A7AE1
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy blunt hooked dress fastener. A Read Class A, Type 2 clasp. It comprises an oval plate which is squared at one end where it narrows into a sub-rectangular strap opening. The plate is flanked by two attachment loops, one on either side towards the end where the strap opening emerges with a third attachment loop at the apex of the plate at the opposite end. All the attachment loops have a central circular hole and a small knop at the apex. The front of the plate is decorated with a stamped and incised foliate design of a central stem with round ended l…
Created on: Monday 28th November 2022
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-F1B88E
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy dress fastener dating to the 17th century. A Read Class A, type 9. It comprises a flat, oval plate, pointed one end,  the remnant of a rectangular attachment loop which is mainly all missing. The plate is flanked by the remnants of three rounded, pierced lugs for attachment, one on either side below the missing loop and one at the pointed end. All the lugs have a central circular perforation. The front of the plate is decorated with a central incised quatrefoil flanked by round ended scrolled leaves or curlicues. The rear is flat…
Created on: Monday 12th September 2022
Last updated: Friday 14th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-73F730
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy hooked clasp dress fastener of Read class A, type 1 dating to c.1600-1700. The hook or eye is missing. The clasp comprises a circular openwork plate with three pierced lobes for attachment positioned at 11, 3 and 7 o'clock (with attachment end positioned to the side). The lobes are circular with a large circular aperture, one lobe at 3 o'clock is larger with a scalloped decoration. On the opposing side is the vertical break where the hook or eye would have been. When the clasp is positioned with the attachment end to the side, the openwork apertures frame an…
Created on: Monday 29th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 31st October 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-A65E08
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy dress hook fastener. The dress hook has circular central plate decorated with a moulded five petalled rose. There is a central circular hole through the rose and another circular hole below it, above the rearward hook. There is a rectangular attachment loop at the top. At the bottom is a D-sectioned rearward hook which tapers to a sharp point. Read Class E Type 3 Date: Post medieval - c. 1500 - 1600 Dimensions: 32.57 mm x 14.45 mm x 5.10 mm Weight: 1.75 g Similar examples are recorded in Read, B 2008 Hooked Clasps & Eyes, Nos 342 - 347
Created on: Tuesday 25th September 2018
Last updated: Monday 12th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-4C95D4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gilded silver post-medieval hooked dress fastener. It comprises a circular plate with a silver wire hook at the rear. The plate is decorated at the front with twisted silver wire filigree decoration and is gilded. The filigree wire consists of a border of rope pattern wire at the outer edge framing a group of seven twisted wire circles with a large domed pellet in each. These are arranged as a sexfoil comprising a circle of six set around the seventh in the centre.There are small pellets between the outer edge of the sexfoil and the outer band. Soldered to the rear of the p…
Created on: Friday 21st September 2018
Last updated: Monday 14th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Puddletown', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-96FBF0
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy dress hook or fastener dating to the 16th century. The object consists of one piece of copper alloy with a curved rectangular in section hook placed vertically at the lower edge. At the upper edge of the dress fastener there is an inverted-trapezoidal lobe with a central knop at the upper edge of the main body. The body of the fastener is broadly circular in shape. The integral hook would have once attached to another fastener on a garment. The end of the hook is pointed. The decoration consists of a central pellet surrounded by a circular moulded impression, within thi…
Created on: Monday 14th May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd May 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-B38512
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy hooked clasp dress fastener.The front is moulded and the rear face is flat. It has an openwork plate pierced with six perforations two circular flanking the main part of the plae, two kidney-shaped and two sub circular set around the central element of an inverted fleur de lys. The central element is framed by a V (the point above the top of the lys). The side edges are curvilinear in outline. There is a moulded collar below the plate at the top of the tapering hook. The hook curves rearwards and is 'D'-shaped in cross-section, flat at the rear. The hook termin…
Created on: Sunday 14th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-6B0DC4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy blunt hooked dress fastener. A Read Class A, Type 2 clasp. It comprises an oval plate which is squared at one end where it narrows into a the remnant of a forward curving rectangular blunt hook at one end. The the plate is flanked by two attachment loops, one on either side towards the the end where the hook emerges with a third attachment loop at the apex of the plate at the opposite end. All the attachment loops have a central circular hole and a small knop at the apex. The front of the plate is decorated wirth a stamped and incised foliate design of a cen…
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2017
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-25624E
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval cast copper-alloy openwork dress fastener with a pinecone or thistle in the centre. The hook is missing. As Read no. 402.
Created on: Friday 8th September 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 15th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-58FA5C
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy hooked clasp. A single sharp-hooked clasp. It comprises a trapeziodal loop at the top of a solid, circular plate with a long tapering hook extending from the lower edge. The hook has a trapeziodal cross section and is curved backwards.It terminates in a sharp point. The circular plate is decorated with a moulded five petalled double rose. The back of the plate is hollowed, the front is convex. Date: Early Post Medieval c. 1500 - 1650 Dimensions: 34.99 mm x 14.55 mm x 3.11 mm Weight: 2.82 g Similar examples can be seen in Read, B, 2008, Hooked Clasps an…
Created on: Thursday 17th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 29th August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-F679E7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper alloy hooked clasp, probably dating to c. AD 1600-1700. The hook section of a two-part hooked clasp. The object has an oval plate with a flat back. From one side expands the stub of the flat, rectangular hook There are three integral perforated lugs, two flanking the remnant of the hook and one at the opposite end. The front of the plate is cast in low relief with a depiction of the Commonwealth arms. The rear is flat and undecorated. Dimensions: length 36.05 mm; width 20.06 mm; thickness 1.69 mm; weight 3.71 g. Please see Read, B 2008 Hooked-clasps & eyes,…
Created on: Friday 7th July 2017
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sturminster Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-6ABBDC
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy dress fastener or strap fitting with a large rectangular eye that was used to attach to a strap or sewn onto textile and a scallop-shaped terminal at the opposite end to attach to another clasp. The frame is heart shaped with decorative openwork 'kidney shaped" apertures, with a circular aperture at the center. The frame narrows to a stem and terminates in scallop shaped toggle which has been cast so that it bends upwards and is proud of the stem. The broken internal straight edge of the scallop forms a narrow ledge, which may have expanded into a toggle, which sugge…
Created on: Thursday 25th May 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 30th May 2017
No spatial data available.

Record ID: SOM-EFA98A
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy dress fastener, dating to c. AD 1500 - 1650. The convex plate is oval in plan with a hollow reverse, with incised decoration of five foliate leaves. From the base fo the plate there is a flat, rectangular extension which is folded forward to form a hook but which is now broken. The hook is flanked by two rounded attachment loops, with a third at the oposing end of the oval plate. The fastener measures 38.1mm in length, 16.7mm in width and is 4.5mm thick; it weighs 6.69g. A near identical example can be found published by Read (2008: 169, no.630), which …
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2017
Last updated: Sunday 19th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-E3952D
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gilded silver post-medieval hooked dress fastener. It comprises a circular plate with the remnant of a wire hook at the back. The plate is decorated at the front with twisted silver wire filigree decoration and is gilded. The decoration comprises a border of rope pattern wire at the outer edge with three plain smaller circular wire bands inside. These framethree large domed pellets, one in each. There are small pellets between the circles at the outer edge and a single central pellet. Soldered to the rear of the plate an incomplete hook, formed from a single piece of wi…
Created on: Tuesday 17th January 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 16th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Launceston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-280526
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Loop part of a two part cast copper alloy dress fastener of Post-Medieval, seventeenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1700). The fastener is flat and oval in plan with an integral rectangular loop projecting at one end. At the end opposite the loop, and flanking the junction of the loop and main plate, there are integral perforated circular knops. There is a small casting flaw or unfettled area along one edge. The front of the plate is decorated with a cast design of a recessed centre within a raised line border and on the recessed centre a central raised flower. The flower has an annulet…
Created on: Thursday 15th December 2016
Last updated: Friday 4th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-A187F2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy dress fastener. A catch piece from a set of hook and eye fasteners.The fastener comprises a circular plate with a oval hole near the centre and a large rectilinear attachment loop at the top. Opposite the loop is the stub of a smaller, broken loop through which the hook of the catchpiece would have passed. The plate is decorated with a moulded, slightly irregular, sexfoil centred around the oval hole and inside a framing ridge around the edge of the plate. The rear of the plate is undecorated Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700 Dimensions: 30.4 mm x 17.1 …
Created on: Friday 22nd April 2016
Last updated: Friday 29th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: DOR-BAD975
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver gilt dress hook with filigree decoration. A trefoil plate with a pinked outer edge. On each lobe is a dome, two of which retain filigree decoration comprising three wire circles set around a small dome-headed pin. At the centre, between the domes, is a separately applied wide-headed pin which is attached with a butterfly fastening visible at the back of the plate. There are traces of solder on the rear of the plate for the attachment of the missing pointed hook. At the top of the rear of the plate is a horizontal offset attachment bar. The surfaces retain traces of…
Created on: Monday 12th October 2015
Last updated: Friday 6th January 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wimborne Minster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-793701
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt dress hook with filigree decoration. A trefoil plate with a pinked outer edge. On each lobe is a dome decorated with three wire circles set around a small dome-headed pin.. At the centre, between the domes, is a separately applied wide-headed pin which is attached with a butterfly fastening visible at the back of the plate. Soldered to the rear of the plate behind the lower of the three lobes is a re-curving pointed hook. At the top of the rear of the plate is a horizontal offset attachment bar. The surfaces retain traces of gilding. Date: Post Medieval - 1500 - 1600 Dim…
Created on: Friday 9th October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 5th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Knighton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-88DF5B
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy blunt hooked dress fastener. As Read Class A, Type 2. It comprises an oval plate with a forward curving rectangular blunt hook at one end (the end of the hook is rounded). At the hook end the plate is flanked by two attachment loops with a third attachment loop at the apex of the plate at the opposite end. The oval plate is undecorated and the surface has file marks. The back is undecorated. Reference: Read, B, 2008, Hooked Clasps & Eyes, p. 170, Nos. 363 & 367 Date: Post Medieval - 17th century Dimensions: 40.92 mm x 26.19 mm x 1.51 mm Weight: 5.83 g
Created on: Wednesday 29th July 2015
Last updated: Friday 4th January 2019
Spatial data recorded.