Record ID: YORYM-DCCDB2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy hooked tag of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1500 - 1700. Reads wound wire chatelaine blunt-hook Class A, Type 2. The object comprises two lengths of ovate sectioned U-shaped wire, one set within the other. The outer wire is plain, terminating to each side at the open end in tight downward facing S-shaped loops. The inner wire is looped around the bend in the outer wire and twisted up its length, remaining within the outer wire, and terminating in inward turned coils. The wires are bound together below the coiled terminals by thinner-gauge wire wrapped repeatedly ar…
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: ESS-74119C
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy dress fastener (eye for a blunt hooked fastner of Read Class A, Type 2) of post medieval date (AD 1600 - AD 1700). Description: The main plate is sub-ovate with two complete round attachment loops projecting from either side of the outer edges, and a third attachment loop at the pointed end of the plate. These loops are each decorated with a projecting knop. The other end of the plate has a rectangular loop which shows signs of wear. The plate is engraved with an oval panel bearing a possible foliate and floral …
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 21st December 2023
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Record ID: LIN-BB4A40
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval cast copper-alloy dress fastener dating from the 16th-17th century (c. AD 1500-1650). Read Class E, Type 1 (Read 2008, p. 89, nos. 302-3). Cast in one-piece with moulded relief and openwork. The dress fastener is a sub-circular plate with a trapezoidal loop and a backward curved hook that terminates with a sharp point. The plate is decorated with moulded ridge arcs around a central circular hole and on the lengths are engrailed decoration consiting of three slightly angular lobes pointed downwards towards the hook end. There is a projecting ridged collar at t…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellingore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-B7AA14
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, cast, copper-alloy, medieval dress fastener dating from the 16th-17th centuries (c.AD 1500-1700). Read Class E Type 3. The dress fastener is cast in one-piece with moulded relief. It has a circular plate decorated with a six-petalled flower with six pellets and a central pellet in the interstices, within a linear border. The loop is trapezoidal and the hook is backward curved terminating in an old break.                                            …
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellingore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-B29794
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-Medieval cast copper-alloy triangular dress hook or hooked fastener dating to the 16th century (c. AD 1500-1600). Class L, Type 2 (Read 2008: 128, ref: 528). Cast in one piece with moulded relief. The dress fastener is triangular in form decorated with a cinquefoil on each apex of the attachment-end and another forms a projecting ridged collar at the junction of the plate and broken hook. Mid-green patina. Length: 27.34 mm; Width: 14.17 mm; Thickness: 2.44 mm; Weight: 1.67g
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wellingore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-24A9B2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete post-medieval cast copper-alloy dress hook dating from the 16th-17th century (AD 1550 - 1650). Read Class E type 3.  The dress hook has a central circular body of which is decorated with the classical bust in relief facing outwards surrounded by a circular border and outer border of circular pellets divided by raised lines. The trapezoidal loop projects from one end and at the opposite end, the D-shaped cross-sectioned hook extends from the body and terminates with a truncated end, missing its tip. The reverse is undecorated and flat, a…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Sunday 19th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Caistor', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-E25072
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy post-medieval dress fastener (c.AD 1500-1650). Read Class E, Type 2. The dress fastener was cast as one piece and has moulded relief decoration. It is shield-shaped and the hook is missing due to an old break. Below the rectangular attachment loop is a transverse broad groove with a swag and ridged collar at the junction of the plate and broken hook area.  Read 2008 p. 90, no. 312
Created on: Friday 10th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NEAR MARSH CHAPEL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-8D53FE
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy dress fastener, part of the eye of a hook and eye fitting, dating to the post-Medieval period, about AD 1550 - 1700. The object is composed of an incomplete sub-circular body, with a, now missing, rectangular loop at the upper end, and the remains of an attachment hole at each side. The opposing end of the fastening is broken off and missing. The front face is decorated with a florate design. The reverse face is flat, plain and undecorated. It is of Read Class A, type 11. Dimensions: The object has a length of 22.0mm, a width of 15.9mm, a thickness…
Created on: Monday 6th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 14th November 2023
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Record ID: LIN-516977
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy, post-medieval dress fastening c. 16th – 17th century.  Read Class E, Type 3. A pierced rectangular frame with raised outer edges and central pellets within a raised ‘V’ ridge, and a collar at the junction of the hook and plate.  The attachment loop and most of the hook are missing. The object has a pale brown/green patina, and measures: - 21mm long. Class E, Type 3. See Read 2008, p. 104, Nos. 402 and 403.
Created on: Friday 3rd November 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
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Record ID: LIN-92A511
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval, cast, copper alloy dress fastener. Read Class A Type 1 'three attachment knops' dated to c.AD 1500-1700. The dress fastener has a central oval plate with a trefoil of attachment-knobs with circular perforations, in the ogee style. At one end is a rectangular loop, now partially broken. Undecorated. Mid-grey patina. Silvery sheen. Length: 39.30 mm; Width: 29.26 mm; Thickness: 1.99 mm; Weight: 6.36g Read Class p. 170, no. 635
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FB5922
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval cast copper alloy hooked dress fastener, probably dating to c.1500-1650. Sub-rectangular body with rounded side protrusions at the base either side of an extended gently tapering hook arm that bends backwards, terminating in a sharp point. At the apex is a damaged trapezoidal attachment loop. Moulded decoration on the face, with three horizontal transverse lines above swirls on the protrusions either side and transverse lines on the hook arm. The reverse is plain and the surface displays a corroded pale green / brown patina. Length 39.7mm…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-E7E243
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy blunt-hooked dress fastener of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1600 - 1700. Reads Class A, Type 2. The main plate is sub-ovate with two complete ovate attachment knops projecting from either side of the outer edges. A third attachment knop is present to the pointed end of the plate. The wider end of the plate displays worn projections which would have formed an integral eye. The upper surface of the plate is decorated with a spray of three flowers bordered by ring and dot motifs. The metal has a mid-grey shiny patina suggesting a white-metal coating and is worn. …
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-D3A328
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy Post-Medieval toggle piece from a hook and eye style fitting, of Read's Early Post-Medieval unclassifed toggle-clasps Type 5 (Read, 2008: no. 761), dating from AD 1500 - 1700. It may be pasrt of a sword belt fitting. It has a flat plate with a damaged attachment end and pairs of large semi-circular notches to each side. At the terminal end is a projecting disc that would have enabled the object to lock in place with the corresponding catch/eye piece. At the centre of the attachment end and at the centre of the plate towards the terminal are the remains…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-265B27
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy openwork dress fastener of Read's class E type 5 dating to c.1500-1600. Read (2008) p.110, no.436. Approximately half of the fastener survives, comprising of a plano-convex cross-section with a moulded rope-work body (in the form of a trefoil Hungerford knot) forming two adjacent loops and a further incomplete loop below. A trapezoidal attachment loop is situated above, with a large moulded pellet on each arm connecting the straight outside edge. The surface displays an even green patina. Length 16.7mm, width 19.3mm, thickness 1.4mm and w…
Created on: Sunday 8th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Rowling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F1B64E
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval cast copper alloy openwork dress fastener, dating to c. AD 1600-1750. The find is the 'eye' half of a hook and eye fastener. The main body of the find is heart-shaped in plan with two small lobes above the heart. The rectangular loop which would have been above the two lobes in order to accept the clasp, is now missing, due to an old break. There is a trilobed projection into the centre of the heart at its apex. At the base of the heart is a short, rectangular crossbar above a lozenge shaped projection that is pierced with a circular h…
Created on: Thursday 5th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 20th October 2023
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Record ID: SF-C47FD7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete gilded silver post-medieval dress hook. The object consists of a composite, ornately moulded, sub-circular central section with a sub-rectangular silver wire attachment loop projecting to one end of its reverse and a silver sharp rear-facing hook to the other end. The central section is composed of a separate circular, annular-shaped border, eight knops projecting from regular intervals around its edge, with a flower-shaped disc and then a smaller flower-shaped boss attached via a silver rivet to the centre of its outer face and a solid disc-shaped plate coverin…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Troston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-40BD85
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete two part lead alloy dress fastener dating to the post medieval period (c.AD 1500-1600). The object consists of a hollow rectangular box with a cast hatching to the front and an incomplete open top. The long sides and bottom has a laterally projecting flans. On the reverse at the base is a sub-rectangular thickened section into which is embedded a separate wire hook that has broken off. The object has a dark cream patina. Dimensions: Length 26.1mm; width 12.4mm; thickness 7mm; weight 7.43g A close comparison is illustrated in Read (2008: 53) see no.166, which is also re…
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2023
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Record ID: DUR-030F20
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy dress fastener from the early post medieval period (c. AD 1550-1650). The upper face of the fastener consists of a central oval plate decorated at the centre with a foliate motif within a plain border. On the outside edge of the plate are two decorative knops, one on either side. There are three attachment eyes, two either side of the incomplete rectangular loop and one at the opposing end. The end attachment eye is missing. The rectangular loop at one end would have taken the corresponding hook of another fastener on the opposite edge of the garment to br…
Created on: Tuesday 12th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: GLO-9E49D0
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy 'male' tag from a pair hooked tags. The tag has a sub-oval plate with a large rectangular hook at one end (now truncated). Either side of the plate are two pierced lugs for attachment with a two further at the rear that clank a scallop shaped projection. The centre of the plate is decorated with a human face flanked by crescent shaped drapery design. This artefact dates to the 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 10th October 2023
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Record ID: IOW-5E6A57
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete Post Medieval copper-alloy eyed clothing fastening for use in conjunction with an opposing hook, AD 1600-1700. The object has been made from a length of wire which has been bent into a 'U' shape, the two pinched and squared ends then turned outwards so that both touch the outside of the 'U', creating two loops.
Created on: Monday 4th September 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.