Record ID: ESS-CA2ED4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy dress fastener (eye) (Read's Class A, Type 8) of post-medieval date (c.1500-1650). Description: The object consists of a plate, oval in plan and flat with bevelled edges on one face. It has a rectangular eye at one end flanked by two attachment loops with a third at the other end. A collar of tywo knops sits at the junction between the third attachment loop and the plate. Two further knops project from the sides of the plate, at the mid-point. The front of the plate is decorated with a raised foliate design within a border comp…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-2129C5
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete worn cast copper-alloy hooked tag (Read Class E, Type 3) of post-medieval date (c.AD 1500-1700). Description: The object remains as the broken and slightly distorted lobed openwork circular plate, decorated with an unclear design in a raised circular border. The plate has an integrally cast trapezoid eye and is missing its hook.  Measurements: length: 23.1mm; width: 18.2mm; thickness: 2mm; weight: 2.02g
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Thursday 13th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-373311
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and worn cast copper-alloy dress fastener (hook) (Read's Class A, Type 2) of post-medieval date (c.1600-1700). Description: The body is sub-oval in plan and flat with bevelled edges on one face. There is one remaining triangular attachment loops on one of the sides. There is a mostly missing rectangular hook. Both faces appear to be plain with no discernable decoration. The surface has a patchy dark brown and light green patina with traces of a white metal coating.  Dimensions: length: 32.8mm, width: 22.4mm, thickness: 1.…
Created on: Thursday 4th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 10th July 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-A4B3DB
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  An incomplete silver-gilt dress fastener of early Post-Medieval date (c. AD1500-1600) - a Read Class B, Type 3 triangular wire single blunt-hooked and eye clasp.  The dress fastener consists of two pieces: a triangular shaped front sheet and a twisted wire eye which would originally have been attached to the rear of the triangular sheet.  The sheet is decorated with a double border of filigree wire.  Pellets are present on two of the triangular points of the inner border (a third pellet would presumably have been present on the now broken off corner …
Created on: Monday 15th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 9th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mashbury', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-7E82E3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description:  A complete Read Class B Type 2 post-medieval silver-gilt eye-plate dress fastener dating to c. AD 1500-1600.  The fastener consists of a circular plate of silver sheet decorated on the front with a central pellet within a circular filigree boarder, surrounded by a further seven filigree circles.  A filigree border surrounds the central design.  A single length of silver wire is soldered to the reverse, shaped to form two attachment loops and an eye.  The gilding is worn but still visible in patches, especially on the filigree.  Dimensi…
Created on: Monday 31st January 2022
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wix', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-670939
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver Post Medieval hooked dress fastener. It is circular in shape with twisted silver wire filigree decoration on the outer face. This consists of a double wire border with four circles arranged in a quatrefoil in the middle. To the reverse is the remains of the hook which has broken off. Dimensions: length: 7.7mm, width: 6.4mm, thickness: 1.6mm, weight: 0.16g Discussion: LVPL-033E25 is an exact parallel on the database and was submitted for consideration as treasure (Treasure case tracking number: 2007T613). SF-BBAB39 is a similar example which was also submitted for c…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 13th April 2023
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Record ID: ESS-DCC23B
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver eye from a hook-and-eye dress fastener. It appears to have been cast in one piece, in moulded relief.The item is sub-triangular in shape and is of a trifoliate openwork design. Below the sprouting elements is a large open loop, into which the hook part of the garment fastener would slide. Between each element are two smaller attachment loops, through which thread would pass to sew the fastener into a garment. The surface is gilded though some of this has worn off. The back of the fastener is flat, plain and undecorated. Dimensions: length: 14.6mm, …
Created on: Thursday 4th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wix', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EE381A
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt post-medieval clothes fastener (eye clasp). The item is circular and partially damaged. There are two integral attachment loops and there would have been a third, though this is now missing. The larger of the two loops may have acted as the eyelet portion of the fastener, rather than as an attachment loop per se. The circular face of the clasp features raised moulded relief in the form of a human face. The reverse is flat and undecorated and bears a maker's mark, part of which is lost. The remaining mark reads 'T'. Dimensions: weight: 0.9g, length (including loops…
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 4th July 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-9CD262
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Curator's Report for 2014 T941, Post Medieval silver finger dress hook Date: 1500-1600 AD Description: An incomplete and probably unfinished hooked tag dating to the Post Medieval period. The body of the hooked tag consists of a rectangular plate with seven knops projecting from it; one knop in each of the four corners and one knop at the midway point on both of the long sides and lower edge. The upper edge bears an slight projection from which extends rounded loop. The front is decorated with a raised rectangular panel with a recessed sexfoil pattern in the centre. The borde…
Created on: Thursday 11th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tendring District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-9C9DD2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Curator's Report for 2014 T937, Post Medieval silver finger dress hook Date: 1500-1600 AD Description: An incomplete hooked tag dating to the Post Medieval period. The body of the hooked tag consists of a rectangular plate with seven knops projecting from it; one knop in each of the four corners and one knop at the midway point on both of the long sides and top edge. The lower edge bears an ovoid projection from which extends a trefoil knop. The front is decorated with a raised rectangular panel with a recessed sexfoil pattern in the centre. The border between the outer edges…
Created on: Thursday 11th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tendring District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-725E86
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Silver dress fastener or pin of probable Post Medieval date. The object is formed of three, broadly circular plates of decreasing diameter, attached centrally by a large silver rivet. The plates are all free moving and are convex, bending downwards away from the central rivet before turning up at the outer edge to give height and texture, rather than three flat discs. Each plate is notched from the outer edge towards the centre five times, creating five petals. The outer edge of each petal is notched further, creating broadly triangular projections. The central rivet is circular in se…
Created on: Monday 17th March 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 24th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'South Colchester Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-0B1E03
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a male / female dress hook of post-Medieval date. The piece represents the lower terminal only, witha worn break at the top. The object comprises an elongated-S-shaped arm with discoidal terminal at the intact bottom end. Dimensions:25.0mm long, 5.4mm wide, 12.9mm diameter of disc, 7.9mm depth, weight 4.44g.
Created on: Tuesday 4th February 2014
Last updated: Saturday 28th July 2018
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Record ID: ESS-E628B1
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy hooked tag dating to the Post Medieval period. The object comprises of one half of a set and is the 'female' of the two. The tag is formed of a triangular plate with heart-shaped openwork centre and a crescentric shoulder at either side. From this plate the attachment loop, rectangular in shape with crescentic shoulders at each side, extends. A projecting 'T' shpaed bar is missing to an old break on the flat edge of the triangular plate. The tag measures 21.3mm in length, 18.5mm in width, 2.2mm in thickness and weighs 2.81g. Read (2008, pg. 187) illustrat…
Created on: Wednesday 16th October 2013
Last updated: Monday 16th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-1DE792
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post Medieval silver-gilt 'eye' element from a two piece hooked clasp. The fitting is circular in plan with a 'D' shaped loop extending from the upper edge. More complete examples of this type of clasp bear circular loops, probably used to sew the fitting onto an item of clothing. This example has suffered extensive breaks around the edges resulting in only a small amount of fitting surviving. The upper surface has a cast design of a forward facing bust, with small depressions to represent the eyes and mouth. The reverse of the fitting is plain. Discussion: The object …
Created on: Thursday 12th September 2013
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2015
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Record ID: ESS-C33BF8
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Date: Early Post Medieval AD1500 - AD1600 Description: An almost complete post medieval silver-gilt dress hook dating to AD1500 - AD1600. It consists of a trefoil of hemispheres set onto a flat silver plate. Around each dome, the plate is scalloped and between each set of scallops is a triangular projection decorated with a series of incised lines. The triangular projection on the left side of the plate has been slightly damaged and bent upwards towards the domes. Each dome has applied filigree decoration consisting of a trefoil of annulets, two are completely visible and one is…
Created on: Tuesday 9th July 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stanway', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-FC3336
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Period: 16th century- 17th century Date of Discovery: 1/4/2013 Circumstances of discovery: whilst metal detecting Description: silver-gilt dress fastener (hook component of a hook and eye). The body is circular and dome shaped, cast with rope twist edging, four sub rectangular spaces spaced evenly around the dome and in the centre of the dome an even sided cross. In the rectangular spaces is a very small element and there is no gilding present in the rectangular and cross shaped spaces suggesting that there are additional elements to this fastener which are now missing and…
Created on: Thursday 18th April 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-CC9A47
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
2012 T734: Post Medieval silver-gilt dress hook Date of Discovery: 12th October /2012 Circumstances of discovery: Whilst searching with a metal detector Date: 1500-1600 AD Description: Fragment of a silver-gilt dress hook with applied filigree decoration. The body is hemispherical with a flat back and domed front. The dome has a flat border around the base with a scalloped edge. The dome is decorated with three wire loops forming a trefoil shape with a central knop within a circular wire loop border. One of these central projecting knops is now missing to an old break. Towards…
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2013
Last updated: Monday 5th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tendring District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-F443F4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case: 2012 T185 Period: AD c.1500-1600 Description: silver-gilt dress hook of trefoil form. Pinked backplate cut from sheet applied with three bosses of hemispherical shape. Each boss has three filigree spirals with a central knop. In the centre of the three bosses is a knop that has been threaded through a flower design cut from sheet and held in place on the reverse using a butterfly pin. On the reverse is a recurving hook and an attachment bar. Dimensions: Length: 17.66mm Width: 14.31mm Thickness: 8.41mm Weight: 3.54mm Discussion: Similar items can be found…
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mersea Island', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-F0EB98
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Number: 2012 T177 Period: sixteenth century (?) Date of Discovery: 28/2/12 Circumstances of discovery: whilst metal detecting Description: silver-gilt lozenge shaped object, perhaps a fragment from a dress accessory/ fastener. The object is now broken from the corners closest apart in width. The front is silver-gilt and a ridge runs down the central length of the object, with striation marks, possibly used to add texture to the surface, running perpendicular to the central ridge. On the reverse is soldered a hook, with the pointed end of the hook turned back towar…
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 8th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-238DE3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE 2012 T128 Post Medieval dress hook Date: Post Medieval - 16th Century Description: Incomplete silver-gilt, hollow composite dress hook of Read Early Post Medieval class C type 4, formed of a rectangular backplate, with a faceted front plate creating a trapezoid cross section. The front and back plates are damaged at the attachment end, and the opposing hooked end is also damaged and incomplete. The three facets of the front plate are separated by a raised rope work border. Each facet is divided into square panels decorated with an incised flower motif - the most co…
Created on: Monday 20th February 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester District', grid reference and parish protected.