Record ID: NMS-88F51E
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post medieval copper-alloy dress fastener. An eye-piece of a blunt-hooked clasp of Read’s (2008) Class A, Type 2 and similar to ibid No. 648. The plate is sub-oval (slightly wider at the eye end) and shallowly convex on the front, concave on the reverse. There are three projecting circular attachment loops, one at the narrow end and two opposing each other at the wide end. The eye, situated directly opposite the narrow end, is incomplete and slightly distorted. The break are not recent. It appears to have been originally oval and there is a small V-shaped notch at the …
Created on: Friday 25th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8844B7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post medieval copper-alloy dress fastener. An eye-piece of a blunt-hooked clasp of Read’s (2008) Class A, Type 2 and similar to ibid No. 643. It is a flat sub-oval plate with a rectangular loop or eye at one end. At the opposite end and at the centre of each long edge there is a projecting circular attachment loop, although one of these latter is incomplete due to a worn break. The two complete ones have a very small round knop on their outside edges. There are two small concavities on the internal edge of the outer transverse bar of the eye, probably a result of …
Created on: Friday 25th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 29th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F007B4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy clasp of Read 2008 early post-medieval Class G, Type 1 wire quadruple sharp-hooked clasp constructed from three lengths of wire of two gauges, the narrower one tightly wound around the other two, very similar to ibid. nos. 572-3, both from the River Thames foreshore, London. Only two other examples, also from the River Thames, have been recorded on this database (PUBLIC-76F0EB and PUBLIC-1BBE96). They differ from the present piece in being made up of five and four lengths of wire respectively. Such objects were perhaps "associate…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-17332A
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Discoidal mount of copper alloy sheet with a central hole filled with remains of an iron rivet and surrounded by rust on both faces. The front face is engraved with a ring of rocker-arm around the edge and eight lines of the same radiating from the centre. The object is probably part of a Read 2008, early post-medieval double sharp-hooked clasp of Class S, of which two other examples with circular plates have been recorded in Norfolk (NMS-6DA7EF and NMS-AE34D1). However, rivets that secure the front plate to the double hook in this class are normally of copper alloy. For a shield-shap…
Created on: Friday 14th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 15th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A4D497
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy oval dress fastener of Read 2008, single blunt-hooked clasp Class A, Type 8, with part of the hook missing. Details of the counter-relief scrolled ornament are very similar to those of LEIC-FD9814. Extant length 34.9mm. Width 20.2mm. Thickness 1.7mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 16th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 24th August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-FB7598
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete early post-medieval copper-alloy catch-piece from a hook and eye dress fastener of Read's (2008) class A, type 13. It is oval and openwork with a central lozenge-shaped flower of four pointed petals arranged diametrically. Tendrils and other foliation radiate from this to the perimeter of the oval. On the outside of the oval at one end is a small trefoil knop. At the opposite end is the rectangular base of the missing loop or eye, which exhibits two short worn stumps where the eye has broken away and is decorated with two parallel transverse grooves. Among the openwork void…
Created on: Friday 21st August 2020
Last updated: Monday 9th November 2020
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Record ID: NMS-0599E2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hook-piece from a copper-alloy blunt-hooked fastener of post-medieval date. It has an oval plate with relief decoration of a stylised face set within an oval made up of two swags of drapery. There are possible flowers or plant stems curling to either side. This is all set in a double ridged frame, with a broad groove between the ridges. The design is the right way up when the object is held with the hook to the right; the hook bends slightly backwards and then forwards, and is then broken (slightly worn break); it is 6mm wide at the break. There is a circular loop for attach…
Created on: Thursday 16th January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E30B8E
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Eye-plate from a post-medieval copper alloy single blunt-hooked clasp of Read 2008, Class A, Type 8. The incomplete eye has been repaired with a riveted iron object, now decayed and incomplete. Counter-relief decoration is very close to that on ibid. nos. 663 and 664. Extant length 39mm. Width 22.2mm. 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 4th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-258239
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a post-medieval sheet copper alloy clasp, a distorted probable dress fastener, semicircular and black coated. On the front face there is at least one circle of punched dots. Two elements are attached to the underside probably with solder: a strip, with a pointed or angled end and once probably hooked, at the centre of the straight edge and projecting beyond it; a wire loop shallowly embedded near the rounded edge (one end now dislodged). No good parallel noted. Length (excluding hook) 22mm. Width 40mm. Width of loop 25mm. Perhaps 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 13th June 2019
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-934F8F
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval white-metal coated copper alloy strap fitting or dress fastener, the looped or female part of a clasp with an incomplete loop, an opposed pair of lateral three-quarter round cut-outs, a transverse groove and a bent-forward T-shaped spigot. Length 19mm. Width 17.2mm. Similar to Read 2008, nos. 703-4, early post-medieval single blunt-hooked Class E, Type 1 but lacking a heart-shaped aperture. One other example has been noted, NMS-52E682. Mid 16th - 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-4337A3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete hook plate, with most of the hook missing, from a post-medieval white-metal coated copper alloy blunt hooked clasp of Read 2008, Class A, Type 16, cf. no. 696 (NMS-84C863). Probably cast in the same mould as that published example and as another Norfolk find (NMS-539A87). The latter is poorly fettled but even on this present piece, however, two apertures nearest to the hook remain almost entirely blocked by metal. Extant length 31mm, width 21.7mm, thickness 1.2mm. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 1st February 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 21st July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-D69265
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy arm-fragment from a Victorian skirt lifter. It comprises a circular-sectioned rod, now bent into a U-shape with a flattened oval terminal at one end, terminating in an old break across a circular perforation. Projecting from the opposite end is a shallow U-sectioned oval bowl. Just above the scoop is a wide transverse groove. These arm fragments have formerly been identified as cosmetic spoons or ear scoops of various dates. Similar examples have been recorded on the PAS database including: NMS-23AFEF, KENT-F94EBD, IOW-CEEE21, CORN-C851A6, LON-B74D20 & WMID-7F1F63, h…
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-5EC424
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval to post-medieval copper alloy double-hooked dress clasp, crudely-cut oval sheet plate (29 x 25mm) riveted to the centre of a cut and wrought strip which terminates in sharp hooks (one broken at bend). Read 2008, early post-medieval double sharp-hooked clasp of Class S, Type 1.The front of the probably re-used plate has the remains of cut-down engraved decoration with possible leaves between two pairs of zig-zag lines. Length 56mm. c.1450 - c.1550.
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 12th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0B39A2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late medieval to post medieval double sharp-hooked clasp of Read's 2008 Class S. Lozengiform sheet metal plate with central copper alloy rivet securing a separate sheet double-hook to the reverse. The face of the plate is decorated with a rectangle and a cross on saltire within an outer border, all engraved in interrupted rocker-arm. Length 50mm. Width 35mm. Cf. Read 2008, p. 134, no. 546. 15th-16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2018
Last updated: Thursday 11th June 2020
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Record ID: NMS-EDEF6B
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete late medieval to post medieval double sharp-hooked clasp of Read's 2008 Class S. Lozengiform sheet metal plate, missing one corner due to old damage. In the centre is a copper alloy rivet securing a separate sheet double-hook. The double-hook is missing both terminals. See: Read, B, 2008, p. 134, no. 546 - 549.
Created on: Friday 18th May 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2021
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Record ID: NMS-9F8FEF
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval white-metal coated copper alloy dress fastener of abnormal form, bearing some similarity to Read 2008 early post-medieval single blunt-hooked clasps of Class A, but without close parallel in both its sub-trapezoidal shape and its decoration, and with a blunt T-shaped hook that might be considered a toggle. Relief decoration comprises a scroll at each corner, with two at the end near the hook curled around attachment holes. Between these there is a large heart-shaped aperture and a motif that covers the rest of the surface appears to be a passant guardant leopard standing…
Created on: Wednesday 2nd May 2018
Last updated: Thursday 25th October 2018
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Record ID: NMS-1E42D9
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval composite hooked dress fastener, domed stud (diam. 12.5mm) with narrow sheet backplate held on the reverse by integral rivet, plate with opposed notches before perforated terminal forming the eyelet, the other end bent-over to form a hook. Length 41mm. Probably 16th-17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 31st January 2018
Last updated: Monday 10th August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-7F905C
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy mount, flat and square or lozengiform, with solder on the reverse. One corner is missing. The front is engraved with a lattice of oblique lines partly within a frame, and there are seven to nine V-shaped notches in each side. Probably part of a Read 2008 early post-medieval Class D, Type 3 single sharp-hooked clasp. Cf. NMS-8BBC52. 18.5 x 17.7mm. Thickness 1mm. 16th century.
Created on: Monday 20th June 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd May 2017
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Record ID: NMS-6314A7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy dress fastener of Read 2008, Class D, Type 3, a lozengiform plate with a separate wire hook and a transverse loop embedded in a deposit of solder on the concave reverse. The convex front rises in two steps to an engraved lozenge subdivided by a saltire into four lozenges. Length (including hook) 30.8mm. Length of plate 24mm. Width 23mm. Thickness (excluding loop) 3.8mm. Internal width of loop 10.5mm. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 7th April 2016
Last updated: Thursday 3rd December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-5F5159
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy late medieval to early post medieval double sharp hooked clasp (Read Class S type 1). Lozengiform body (39mm x 39.5mm across angles) with a 4mm x 52mm double-hooked strip running across the angles and riveted to the centre of the reverse. The front of the rivet is raised whilst the reverse is flush. The clasp strip is made by folding the sides of a wider sheet into the centre to give double thickness with the sharpened ends looped back 180 degrees to form the hooks. The surface of the body is decorated around the border with linear regular rocker arm wriggle-work. Similar…
Created on: Tuesday 1st March 2016
Last updated: Friday 10th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Taverham', grid reference and parish protected.