Record ID: LIN-F520B5
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: MODERN
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy arm from a Victorian or Edwarian "skirt lifter" comprising a curved rod, of circular cross section, which terminates in a 5.73 mm wide bowl at one end and a asymmetrically flattened terminal at the other, which is broken across the site of a rounded hole of diameter 2.92 mm. There is a deep nick on the underside near the bowl end. The arm is bent. Length: 81.25 mm; Width: 5.73 mm; Weight: 5.90g See NLM-1BDE73, NLM-1F4B55, SUR-DB3645 and NLM-68BA88 for direct parallels. This type of object is frequently mis-identified as a Roman ear scoop.
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langworth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-E4E357
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (mid 16th to 17th centuries) dress fastener - eye-clasp. A copper alloy dress fastening which is the 'eye' and not the 'hook'. The body of the dress fastening is a sub-oval which is waisted in plan with a truncated terminal. One terminal has a integral circular loop on each corner and the the other terminal a central, incomplete, circular loop. The clasp is undecorated. The surface is abraded, but has patches of a mid green patina. It measures 23.03mm long, 17.85mm wide, 1.69mm thick, and weighs 2.36g The object is probably a dress-fastening, but acc…
Created on: Sunday 29th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-4E01F3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy early Post-Medieval sharp single hook clasp. Circular body with a cross fleuretty at its centre and openwork apertures between each lis. Sub-rectangular attachment loop with a slender double-collared sharp hook diametrically opposite; the return end of which is missing. The front face of the clasp is moulded whilst the reverse is flat. Dark brown patina. A similar example is shown in Read, B, Hooks Clasps and Eyes; p.97 No.360. Circa 1500-1625. Length 30mm, width 19mm, weight 1.89g
Created on: Sunday 22nd October 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
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Record ID: LANCUM-AF40EC
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A moulded copper alloy fastener, probably for a dress or similar garment. It consists of three hemispheres together. On each of these are moulded three circles with a central hole, two circles towards the inside and one on the outside in a triangular formation. Around the base and over the top of each hemisphere is a braided effect, and in the gap between this in the centre of the piece is a further, raised circular feature with a central knop. This was possibly gilded originally but none remains. On the rear of the object, a rectangular hook is moulded across two of the sphe…
Created on: Friday 8th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Lindale', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-296549
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval to post-medieval sheet sheet copper alloy dress hook of Read 2008 early post-medieval double sharp-hooked clasp Class R with one hook missing (a non-recent break). The plate is lozengiform and therefore the object cannot be assigned to a Type (the 3 existing types are rectangular, circular and heart-shaped). Decoration consists of a contour line of punched dots around a simple cross formed from the same. Weight 1.86g. Extant length 26.8mm. Width 19.2mm. Mid 15th - mid 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 27th July 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-9A6782
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2022 T1258. Description:  An incomplete silver-gilt dress hook of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1500 - 1600. Read’s Class D, Type 3. The object comprises a lozenge sheet backplate with engrailed edges. The upper surface is decorated with twisted wire filigree and granules. A twisted wire border is present at the edges of the plate with a single granule at each point. A smaller lozenge of twisted wire is set around the centre of the plate. The space between the two wire lozenges bears a series of small annulets of twister wire. Approximately sixteen (160 …
Created on: Wednesday 14th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 6th July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Acaster Malbis', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-9E4769
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (mid 16th to 17th centuries) dress hook - hooked-clasp. A copper alloy dress fastening which is the 'hook' and not the 'eye'. The body of the dress fastening is sub-hexagonal in plan with a flower motif in the centre. There is a rounded loop attachment on the edge of the fastening and two other perforations in the corners of the opposite edge. Between these two perforations there is a side, slightly tapering projection which is part of the hook element. This portion is broken, but not recently. The reverse is undecorated and plain. It measures 35…
Created on: Sunday 2nd October 2022
Last updated: Sunday 2nd October 2022
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Record ID: OXON-500F12
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible Roman dress fastening such as a toggle or loop fastener, although this is not certain. The body of the object is a circular sectioned bar which tapers to a narrower section in the centre. Both terminals is slightly expanded and has a low-relief line beneath. Protruding from one edge of the bar, at its most narrow is two integral flat protrusions which was probably originally a loop. The breaks of the loop are not recent breaks. Beneath this loop, integral to the bar, a long stem or pin protrudes which forms a 'V' shape in plan. after the bend, the pin, on the second ha…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd August 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2022
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Record ID: DENO-12A356
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A possible copper alloy blunt-hooked clasp of late medieval to post-medieval date, c. AD 1500-1600, corresponding to Read Class G, Type 2 (rectangular/sub-rectangular). The object consists of a single sub-rectangular plate, rectangular in section, which extends to a long integral hook which narrows from concave semi-circular shoulders. It extends c. 16 mm, before folding back on itself to form the rounded hook. The upper edge of the plate is broken in a sharp and rough, break. There are faint traces of possible decoration on the obverse…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Thursday 25th January 2024
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Record ID: DOR-DA232D
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy dress fastener. A Read Class A type 2 catch piece. It comprises a flat, oval plate, pointed oval at one end, squared at the other where it forms a rectangular attachment loop or eye. The loop is broken. The plate is flanked by two pointed, pierced lugs for attachment (one is broken) with a third at the apex of the plate, opposite the rectangular loop. The two complete lugs have a central circular perforation and a small projection at the apex. The front of the plate is decorated with a stamped and incised foliate design of a central incised stem with a point…
Created on: Wednesday 6th April 2022
Last updated: Saturday 23rd April 2022
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Record ID: LIN-93F663
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval cast dress fastener. A trefoil plate with a decorated outer edge and three domed decorated bosses with a smaller raised circular boss at the centre. The domes are arranged in a triangle, and attached behind two of the domes is a loop. On the reverse of the bottom loop are the remains of the hook. This example is similar to Brian Read's Class D, Type 6 hooked clasps recorded in Hooked Clasps and Eyes, 2008, page 78, number 260. Date: Post-medieval - 16th century Dimensions: 20 mm x 18 mm Weight: 2.5 g
Created on: Tuesday 1st February 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Bigby', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5BC844
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Post-Medieval copper alloy hooked dress fastener of Read Class E Type 5, dating AD1500-1600. The hook itself is bent slightly to one side. The hooked tag has an openwork body cast to resemble a looped rope in the shape of a trefoil with a trapezoidal loop extending from a pair of the trefoil-loops. The hook projects from the third, curling and narrowing to a sharp point. The reverse of the hooked tag is flat while the front has moulded decoration in the form of diagonal ribs along the length of the 'rope' which forms the loops. Where the trapezoidal loop extends is a flattened p…
Created on: Monday 17th January 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 19th January 2022
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Record ID: DOR-00A47C
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy enamelled dress fastener. A hook piece from single blunt hooked and eye clasp. An ovoid plate with a broken wide hook at one and and a shell-shaped knop at the other. The front of the plate is decorated with a design in moulded relief and champlevé enamel. The design comprises a central bearded face with a pellet band over the head, flanked at the top by two angled loops and with a framing chevron flanked by scrolls below. There are groups of pellets set around the central elements. There is infill around he relief in alternating white and black. There are four pierced…
Created on: Thursday 13th January 2022
Last updated: Friday 21st January 2022
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Record ID: WREX-7DC2E8
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper alloy dress accessory or strap fitting of probable Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (500-1050AD). The fitting is irregular in plan and bowed in profile. There is part of a U shaped hook surviving on the reverse. Length: 28.8mm; width: 26.8mm; thickness: 1.1mm; weight: 4.21g The upper part of the fitting is sub-rectangular and is decorated with four deeply punched ring and dot motif, each comprising a central annulet within a ring. The decorated panel tapers slightly before opening again into an undecorated semi-circular projection. The reverse o…
Created on: Tuesday 26th October 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 26th October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shrewsbury area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-01D5DA
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A small cast copper alloy object with a circular decorated plate and a single projecting loop. The plate has symetrical decoration with two flanking sets of C-scrolls to either side of a small five petalled rosette and a ridge along the middle. The side of the plate opposite from the loop is flat, but doesn't appear broken. Possibly an eye-section for a post Medieval dress fastener.
Created on: Wednesday 20th October 2021
Last updated: Thursday 21st October 2021
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Record ID: NMS-F8BCAE
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy incomplete Read class A type 2 early Post Medieval blunt-hooked clasp. The body is a collared oval shape with three debased trefoil attachment knops. The narrowed hook is broken just beyond it's point of return. Both sides are undecorated. Similar examples are illustrated in Read, B. Hooked Clasps and Eyes (2008) p170; Nos, 636/7. Circa AD 1500-1650.
Created on: Tuesday 8th June 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-974D25
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy early Post-Medieval cast dress hook of Read's Class E Type 3. The body of the object is sub-circular, with moulded relief and openwork, with a rectangular loop attachment at the top of the plate. The central part of the plate has moulded decoration of what Read (see reference below ) cites as representing a pinecone, thistle or pineapple motif. There are four perforations on each side of the central decoration. The reverse is flat. Below the central plate an integral curved hook extends down and at its end is bent 180 degrees towards the back, finishing in a point. The ob…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd February 2021
Last updated: Thursday 4th March 2021
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Record ID: SUR-D277B7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast silver dress fastener or dress fitting of post Medieval date. The object has a triangular plate with moulded decoration in the form of a facing zoomorphic mask, with snout, whiskers and long ears to either side, flanked by a frame with floral or foliate sprays down each curving long side of the plate. The lower end of the plate narrows to a collared terminal fixing loop, with an off-centre hole. The narrow aperture of this fixing hole suggests that it was sewn to clothing. The upper margin of the plate has an openwork loop arching over the plate which terminates in a loop or eye…
Created on: Monday 31st August 2020
Last updated: Monday 16th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B530A3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy early Post Medieval eye-clasp; Read class A, type 2. Three attachment loops on a sub-oval body with open rectangular eye loop. Front face engraved with flower-and-leaf decoration punched with ring and dot. A very similar example is illustrated in Read, B. Hooked clasps and Eyes (2008 ) p171. Nos. 641-642. Circa AD1550-1700.
Created on: Tuesday 30th June 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 30th June 2020
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Record ID: WAW-AEBEF7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (UNKNOWN)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Date: Circa AD 1500-1600 Description: An incomplete copper alloy and dress accessory of uncertain type. The object is circular in plan and sub-rectangular in cross-section. The face of the object is decorated with two inward facing scrolls in relief in each quarter, with a raised oval below where each scroll meets. There is a raised border around the perimeter. There very edge of the object is chipped around the circumference. There are five silver studs set at the centre and opposing quarters to the scrolls. The face of the object retains much gilding. The reverse of the object …
Created on: Thursday 30th April 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 8th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Inkberrow', grid reference and parish protected.