Record ID: NMS-1C4C6F
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post-medieval gilded silver dress hook, probably a hat-hook, with a plate in the shape of an openwork portcullis. Three sides of the central lattice survive, with five vertical bars and four horizontal bars divided by small, roughly square holes.Two of the vertical bars have an expanded, arrowhead-shaped point at one end (the base of the portcullis); there are fairly fresh scars from two missing points and a worn break where the fifth is missing. At the other end of the plate (the top of the portcullis) the outer four vertical bars also …
Created on: Thursday 8th June 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-3DD2F1
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver gilt eye-section from a hook and eye dress fastener of post medieval date (c. 1500-1700) and of Read (2008) Class B type 2. The dress fastener is 30.3mm in length and consists of a disc of 18mm diameter with a wire loop soldered on to the reverse. The disc, which is incomplete, has a twisted filigree border and is decorated with five convex bosses, also with filigree borders, surrounding a smaller boss at the centre. There are pairs of pellets sitting in the interior and exterior angles between the bosses; the outermost of which sit on small filigree annulets. The att…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd January 2023
Last updated: Monday 24th July 2023
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Record ID: SUR-76294E
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver dress hook with an oval plate. The front has a pointed hook, the rear edge has a square attachment loop. There is no decoration or maker's mark. The surface of the metal has tool marks and appears to be hand finished.
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 28th June 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-E7D8CE
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2022 T1158. Description:  An incomplete silver-gilt dress hook of Post-Medieval date. Read’s Class D, Type 6. The object comprises a flat trefoil backplate with engrailed edges and a trefoil of hollow domed bosses to the upper surface. Each boss has a trefoil of large annulets of twisted wire filigree. The six outermost annulets encircle a small annulet and granule. The three innermost annulets have lost their decoration though the application scars remain. A circular perforation is present through the backplate, at the centre of the bosses. A separate so…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd November 2022
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yapham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-B127A5
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  An incomplete early post-medieval silver-gilt dress-hook - a Read Class D Type 3 dating to c. AD 1500-1600 (Read 1991:65-66).  The dress hook  consists of a lozenge shaped front plate.  The plate is decorated with a central flower motif consisting of an annulet surrounded by six petals.  Each petal has a smaller petal shape incised within.  This sits within a diamond shaped lined border infilled within smaller annulets.  The plate has an overall border consisting of short vertical lines and two of the remaining corners have a small flare…
Created on: Tuesday 28th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 9th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Wakering', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-50E14B
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver gilt dress hook of sixteenth century AD dating (AD 1500 to AD 1600). The dress hook is made of two components, a single sharp pointed hook attached to the reverse of the plate. The hook has an 180 degree bend at the half way point and has been bent sideways. The plate is rectangular in plan with circular knops projecting from each corner. Three further knops project between these, one extends from the centre of the upper edge while the remaining two project from the centre of each long edge. A floral trefoil knop with exte…
Created on: Friday 6th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 31st March 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Besselsleigh CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BM-567C35
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Dress fitting assembled from elements of silver sheet. Cylindrical backplate, pinked edges, with cut out at the base, with remains of recurving hook soldered at the top. The front made in four sections, the three lower panels decorated with filigree spirals and knops, divided by cable ornament. Traces of gilding. Approx. 2 cm long. 16th Century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-5635C5
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt dress hook, book-shaped backplate with three projecting knops along each side, one of which has broken off. Central plate with four indentations. Recurving hook soldered onto backplate; original bar attachment on backplate now missing. L; 22mm; w: 3.6g.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-54A7BA
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Triangular dress-hook; cusped backplate applied with recurving hook (broken) , attachment bar missing. On the front three hemispheres with filigree roundels and central knops; at the centre a pin with shank attaching it to the backplate, with small pierced circle of silver in form of a flowerhead which fits in middle of the dress fitting. The shank is damaged and the flower-head element is loose; it would originally have been attached to the shank by a domed-headed pin. Approx. 2.9 cm in length. 16th Century, English.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-548A08
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt dress hook in the form of a book, rectangular backplate with seven projecting knops along the sides; fleur-de-lis at the point where the recurving hook is soldered onto the backplate. On the front, within a rectangular frame, an impressed heart and 3 indentations above. Front gilded. Bar attachment on reverse now missing; solderb marks show its original position. Length: 1.5 cm. 16th Century.
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-540D5C
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver 16th Century silver hooked tag with recurving hook. The trefoil plate is solid (L. 11.7mm. W. 11.5mm). The upper surface has a plain raised border, and there are three slightly domed circular bosses, one within each lobe of the trefoil. There is a small, raised pellet in the centre of the plate, with three further small, raised pellets on the outside edge, one in each angle between the lobes. The reverse of the plate is flat. There are two circular attachment scars in each of the upper two lobes indicating where the rectangular loop, now missing, was originally attached…
Created on: Tuesday 12th April 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-DA3617
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval fragment of a dress hook or fitting, in the form of a bent and broken flat backed bar with elaborate cast decoration comprising curled mouldings on upper part of the torso of a herm, head missing, breasts and stomach with navel above draped loin-cloth and short length of broken plain D-sectioned bar. There are worn traces of short, evenly spaced transverse lines on reverse.
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 1st November 2022
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Record ID: SUR-9525BE
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete silver gilt early post medieval sharp hooked dress fastener, Cf. Read's (2008) Class U (triple) or Class V (quadruple) hooked type. The plate is moulded into the form of a six-petalled rose, in high relief, with a prominent pellet boss centre. Around this is a quatrelobed rim, with four projecting knops, one to each cusp. From the mid point of each of the four lobes of the quatrelobed rim is a projection, two of which are broken off at the plate. One of these projections is complete and has a sharp-hook with an elaborate moulded collar decorated wi…
Created on: Thursday 20th January 2022
Last updated: Monday 13th February 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-AC49A6
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver gilt heart shaped head from a hat, cap or other dress hook dating from AD 1500 - 1600. The hat hook is cast and is engraved with a central heart inscribed with a single word (sadly illegible, but possibly "Cur" or IHC) and a border inscription, which appears to read "edovr deum" or "edola de mor" or similar. There is a possible quatrefoil above the heart shape and a spring of foliage inscribed at the pointed end in the legend. The lettering is black letter and the outer perimeter of the badge is crenellated. The reverse is flat apart from the scar where the S shaped hoo…
Created on: Thursday 29th April 2021
Last updated: Monday 28th March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brafferton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-ADF2AF
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
CA complete silver-gilt dress hook of Read Class D, Type 5 and of early Post Medieval date. The plate is heart-shaped and 13.4mm across, with an engrailed edge. The decoration is convex and applied with solder onto the plate. It comprises three bosses surrounded by twisted wire filigree and with four granules between; one in the centre and one between each pair of bosses. There is a sharp hook and a flat fixing loop made of sheet metal soldered to the back of the plate. Circa 16th century.
Created on: Friday 24th July 2020
Last updated: Friday 31st July 2020
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Record ID: PUBLIC-A58572
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast, copper alloy dress hook from the early Post Medieval period AD 1550 - 1625. The object is triangular in form , moulded in one piece. It has an open, trapezoidal shaped loop sitting above a sub-rectangular, convex boss showing a 'cherub's' head. There is a projecting ridged collar between the plate and the hook; only part of the hook point remains. similar to PAS records: WMID-875DDE & LEIC-390C56 Dimensions are 32.54mm long, 13.06 mm wide, weight of 2.40g. There are similar examples on this database at WMID-875DDE & LEIC-390C56. The dress hook matches Read,…
Created on: Friday 5th June 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd November 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'JHFLD2', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: GLO-E4887E
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy dress hook that consists of a rectangular openwork plate surmounted by a rectangular loop. The plate is decorated with an inward facing curled design on either side which is defined by a curving recessed line, the centre of the plate is open. At the base is a rearwards facing hook.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
Last updated: Friday 6th March 2020
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Record ID: WREX-44CEBA
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Number: 2020 T100 Description: Incomplete silver gilt filigree dress or cap hook of Read’s (2008) Class D, Type 2, of early post-medieval date (c. 1500-1600AD).  The head of the object is sub-circular and comprises an open work design made up of 5 small flowers linked together with leaves.  At the centre is an openwork heart with a trefoil motif at the centre. Gilding survives on approximately 50% of the front face. The reverse is flat and is not gilded. From the reverse of the head is an S-shaped hook, the end of which is broken and is now missing, which is …
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tattershall Thorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WREX-44A8F6
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case: 2020 T103 Description:  A complete, silver gilt dress hook with a trefoil shaped plate, with a serrated border, supporting three hemispherical domes, or bosses.  Each dome is decorated with applied filigree and granulated ornament in the form of three annular rings with a small knop at the centre.  A separate undecorated domed-headed split pin pierces a five petalled rove as well as the main plate before splaying on the reverse. Gilding survives on most of the decorative elements. On the reverse there is a rear facing rectangular loop which has been sol…
Created on: Friday 31st January 2020
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tattershall Thorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-C8CE59
Object type: DRESS HOOK
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An early post-medieval (c.1500-1600) silver gilt dress hook of Read's Class D, Type 7 (quatrefoil) with separately soldered hook and attachment loop. One end of the plate has been bent and it is missing two decorative bosses. The quatrefoil-shaped plate is decorated with five large rings of twisted wire, four occupying each 'foil' around a central fifth; not all the rings are complete, perhaps through damage. Each large ring encloses four small twisted wire rings arranged in a quatrefoil. At the centre of four of these is a solid silver boss; the fifth is missing. Additional bosses …
Created on: Monday 13th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 14th July 2020
Spatial data recorded.