Record ID: KENT652
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A cast silver gilt 'looped' portion of a dress fastener, dating c.1500-1650. The item is sub-triangular in shape and is formed from a chubby head with wings or vegetativeelements sprouting from the crown of the head. Above the head between the sprouting elements is a large open loop, into which the hook part of the garment fastener would slide. From the lower sides of head are two smaller attachment loops, through which thread would pass to sew the fastener into a garment. These are formed from acanthus or other vegetative loops sprouting from the side of the head and looping dow…
Created on: Tuesday 29th September 1998
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENT BRENZETT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF218
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy strap-end or possibly book-mount; flattened sub-rectangular attachment plate with remains of a circular attachment hole at top edge; parallel-sided shaft carinated at front; flat behind; terminates in a circular perforation above a rounded knop; traces of gilding on front surface.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd September 1999
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HENLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF1581
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy sword-belt fitting; sub-triangular plate in the form of a plant with central stem and 4 pairs of upward pointing leaves, each inlaid with alternate white and green enamel, pierced attachment lugs at each apex (RH missing); the base of the plate is bent over to form a hook for suspending a strap.
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2000
Last updated: Friday 3rd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WENHASTON WITH MELLS HAMLET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM4468
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Made from wire, three sections are bound tightly. Hooked ends of wires corroded off.
Created on: Thursday 19th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 31st October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'RUSHCLIFFE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM4493
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Large, oval, with decoration in blue, white and black enamel, large and wide hook bent forwards.
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 13th December 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'LINCOLNSHIRE MARSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3982
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny silver catch-piece from a dress fastener. The plate is in the form of a shell, nicely modelled in three dimensions, and at the narrow apex of the shell is a transversely set oval loop. Around the loop there is engraved decoration which may represent stylised foliage. In both of the angles between the shell and the loop is a small circular sewing loop.
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HEMINGSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4078
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible double-hooked fastener. A length of squarish-section rod (2 to 2.5 mm square) has each tapering end bent round to form a hook. The points of the hooks are not sharp, and they have a gap of 3.5 mm between them. The gap is slightly off-centre. The sides of the fastener have some filemarks visible, and a longitudinal line which hints that the object may have been made from rolling and hammering sheet. The total length is 27 mm and the total width 14 mm. Similar double-hooked fasteners, often with very sharp hooks, are known from middle Anglo-Saxon contexts (e.g. Hamwic) but they…
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 16th March 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK COMBS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4105
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Catch-piece from a dress fastener made of a silvery metal, probably a lead/tin alloy with a high proportion of tin. The plate is oval, and decorated with three concentric ridges around the edge; the central ridge is beaded. Within the ridges is a complicated and apparently asymmetric relief scrolly ?foliage design. Each of the long sides has a small decorative projecting lug; one of the short sides has a much larger trefoil lug with two pellets and a perforation. The other short side has a rectangular loop in which to engage the matching hook, with a small circular perforated lug on e…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2000
Last updated: Monday 23rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK PARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP721
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Symmetrical, sub-triangular frame with short rectangular-sectioned shaft; blunt hook missing. Four round suspension loops; two at the bottom edge, two at the top separated by a rounded moulding with three transverse vertical incised lines. The central panel is decorated with moulded curving motifs; the recesses inlaid with alternating white and dark enamel. Much of white enamel survives.
Created on: Monday 15th January 2001
Last updated: Friday 16th September 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HAMPSHIRE HURSTBOURNE PRIORS', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4757
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hooked fastener, probably from clothing, consisting of a long plate with an iron rivet at one end and a broad hook at the other. The plate has relief decoration; the rivet end is rounded and decorated with a relief double rose, with the rivet in the centre. Below this is an asymmetric panel with hard-to-read decoration; the outline of the plate itself is asymmetric, but it does not appear to be broken. Just above the hook is a small panel of relief plant ornament. The hook has lost its tip.
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK NETTLESTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5587
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Oval dress-fastener made from copper alloy. It has five D-shaped pierced sewing lugs, two along each long edge and one at one short end. At the other short end is a broken-off hook 8 mm wide which appears to have curved up and out, rather than down and under as they usually do. The plate is decorated with engraved lines and parts of circles, forming a ?plant motif. The surface is corroded but it may originally have had a white-metal coating.
Created on: Friday 11th May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FELIXSTOWE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5799
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Oval catchplate from a dress fastener. At one end of the oval plate is a long rounded pierced lug, with a small projection decorated with a relief scroll at either side forming a kind of fleur-de-lis shape. In the centre of each of the long sides of the oval is a small worn projection which may once have been a fleur-de-lis. At the other short end is a rectangular attachment loop with a small circular sewing loop at either side where it joins the oval. The oval plate itself has relief decoration of two raised borders with a beaded border in between, and within this a curvilinear desig…
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 15th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC1730
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast in one piece fastener with oval plate, three?sewing holes and a forward facing wide blunt hook. The front of the plate is decorated with a large single central flower bud surrounded by scroll work and with two small open 'rose' type flowers above; the reverse is not as well finished as the obverse, and there is a slight indentation at the back of the central 'bud' motif.
Created on: Monday 20th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC1731
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
A rather cupric dress fastener cast in one piece with an oval plate, three ?sewing holes and a rectangular loop; the plate is decorated with a motif of scroll work with a central boss in low relief inside three concentric ovals.
Created on: Monday 20th August 2001
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF6601
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible dress fastener made from copper-alloy wire wound into a knot. One end of the wire is tapered and forms a long projection with a right-angled corner, perhaps once a hook or loop. The other end is formed into a circle and then the end is interlaced around and through this loop. Perhaps early post-medieval.
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6610
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver dress fastener with cast plate and applied wire loop. The plate is basically triangular, with a raised edge decorated with slight indentations to resemble beaded wire. In the centre of the triangle is a pellet, and there are six smaller pellets around, one in each corner and one in the centre of each side. Between the pellets, on the base of the plate, are three small circular indentations. At each corner is a trefoil which is formed the same way, with a raised border (this time not decorated), a central pellet and three circular indentations around it. On the reverse are filem…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ipswich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7368
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy dress fastener with oval plate and broad incomplete hook. The oval plate is flat and decorated on one face with engraved straight lines and parts of circles. It has two complete sewing lugs just off the widest point and a broken one at one of the short ends. The complete ones are D-shaped with tiny knops and circular perforations. At the other short end is a broad hook with a transverse ridge at its base, which turns upwards (towards the decorated surface) before ending in an old break. There is a decayed grey white-metal coating on both surfaces.
Created on: Friday 9th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NACTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7414
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Oval catch-piece from a hooked dress fastener. In the centre of the long sides are two pierced, rounded, knopped lugs for sewing the fastener to the clothing. At one short end is a third, now broken. At the other short end is a wide rectangular loop into which a corresponding hook would have fitted. There is a ridge on one face between the oval plate and the rectangular loop. Both faces, front and back, are covered with white-metal coating, but neither appear to have the normal engraved decoration.
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STUSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9021
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Catch-piece from a dress fastener. The plate is a tapering oval, with a slightly expanded rounded terminal at the apex which has relief decoration and a projecting pierced circular sewing lug. At the wider end is another transverse band of relief decoration, with a similar sewing lug at either end. In between, the plate is slightly convex and has a hollowed reverse. There is then a narrowed waist between the plate and the rectangular loop, which is now incomplete (old and worn breaks). 17th century. Although it is much more sophisticated in its design and construction than the us…
Created on: Tuesday 30th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10036
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy hooked dress fastener. It is oval in shape and measures 52mm in length and 22mm in width. One end of the oval plate terminates in a hook or possibly a loop, formed by bending a projecting strip of copper-alloy backwards until it meets the back of the oval plate. The plate itself is decorated on its front with an incised pattern within an grooved border; the pattern consists of curving crescentic leaves with groups of three incised circles at their tips. At the other end of the plate is a projecting rounded knop, with an iron rivet through its centre and a smaller knop o…
Created on: Friday 20th December 2002
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FINNINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.