Record ID: SUSS-E3FC95
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
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 piriform (drop shaped) in plan with an integral loop at the wider end; the loop is broken on the outer edge and the inner edge curves down on each side to meet at a centre point, flanking this point the border on the main plate curls inwards, continuing the curves. At the widest point there are integral perforated knops, one each side, which would have been used to sew the clasp onto clothing, one is broken. The end opposite the loop is brok…
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willingdon & Jevington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-71E8E3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half, the hook part, of a 17th century cast copper alloy clothes fastener. The hook is a wide flat strip with a curved end bent forward 180 degrees, the tip of which is missing. The hook is attached to one end of an oval plate. The central area of the plate has a raised floral design within a triple line border. The hook is flanked by two circular attachment holes one on either sid and there is another single attachment hole at the opposite end, flanked by rounded knops. On either side of the widest part of the oval there are double flat knops. The front side shows the remains of …
Created on: Tuesday 27th April 2010
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Goring by Sea', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-141A7D
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy post-medieval dress fastener with a large circular central plate. This is the eye section of a hook and eye fastener, with a rectangular loop for the eye extended to one side of the plate. The circular plate is slightly convex and moulded in low relief on the front with a central six-petalled flower and a narrow border at the edge. Around the flower are four mouldings in the form of pairs of curled lines that start on the outer border of the circle and curve away form each other as they go towards the centre. There are holes between the pairs, curls and edge and cu…
Created on: Tuesday 24th March 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Silverton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-F86ED2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One part of a Post medieval cast copper alloy two-part blunt hook and eye fastener. The fastener has a circular plate, slightly concave on the back and convex on the front. The front is moulded into a design of a man in doublet and collared shirt with a beard and large, slightly wild hair in locks, all within a beaded border. There are three circular attachment loops projecting from the edge at regular intervals, one (at 7 o'clock) is complete, one (at 11 o'clock) broken and one (at 3 o'clock) almost completely missing where about a fifth of the edge of the plate has been lost. The br…
Created on: Wednesday 7th December 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bawdrip', grid reference and parish protected.