Record ID: NMS-6858CD
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete silver mount or dress fastener. One half (the lower half) is flat and undecorated with a curving lower edge. The other half has decoration of two high-relief C-shaped scrolls with their backs towards the flat half and their points upwards The point of one scroll has been lost, but the surviving scroll is open at the top, and appears to be in the shape of a flat ribbon which is wound up at either end, and the inner end bound to the inner end of the other scroll. Between the two scrolls, and partly within both halves, is a sub-oval o…
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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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-DC3BDB
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver eye or catchpiece from a dress fastener, cast in one piece. The solid centre is triangular, with a raised (perhaps plain wire) border and sunken centre; this is filled with three raised or plain wire circles around a central pellet. At each corner is a partial rosette or trefoil, with a central pellet and three petals with sunken centres; where the fourth petal would be is taken up by the corner of the triangle. In the centre of one of the triangle's edges is a large loop forming the eye; this is D-shaped externally and almost circular internall…
Created on: Tuesday 12th January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 10th November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-3A996D
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gold hook element from a dress fastener, of composite construction, consisting of a hook (now incomplete) and an applied plate made from several elements. The applied plate is built up on a backplate made from a piece of circular sheet gold about 7mm in diameter. This has a vertical gold sheet collar soldered around the edge, which may originally have held a setting of glass, gemstone, etc. Around the collar is a separate outer frame of circular-section gold wire about 1.5mm in diameter, which has fine transverse grooves all the way round its surface. A butt joint i…
Created on: Monday 24th August 2020
Last updated: Thursday 20th May 2021
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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-AB3A70
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post-medieval gilded silver dress fastener made in two parts soldered together. The plate is circular, slightly convex on the front, with the edge 'pinked' or cut into several small convex rounded scallops. This edge is interrupted in three places, each a quarter-way round the circle, for projecting lugs pierced with circular sewing holes; two have broken away and one is complete. Within this edge is a circular filigree border made from twisted wire; within this is a ring of 15 pellets, each one surrounded by a tiny collar of twisted wire. Next comes another circle of twi…
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-AD538D
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Catch-piece or eye from a gilded silver post-medieval dress fastener. Circular, slightly convex body with filigree-style beaded wire border, decorated on the upper side with the filigree outline of a septfoil with concave petal-ends and central pellet. The reverse has a soldered-on eyelet made from flattened silver wire, with a larger eye projecting beyond the body to engage with the hook on the missing other half; and two smaller loops projecting to enable fixing to the strap or garment. The object appears to have pale gilding on the front. Dimensions: 14.5mm long, …
Created on: Friday 24th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 14th March 2022
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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-8B393A
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver pierced mount, apparently a catch-piece from a hook and eye pair. Cast in one piece, it is roughly in the form of an upper-case B, with the front edge straight and the rear edge with a double outcurve. The front edge has a squarish cut-out at each end, with the centre forming a narrow undecorated strip which tapers in thickness away from the rectangular-section edge towards a D-shaped central hole. Behind this, the rest of the object has two panels with reserved borders and relief decoration of obliquely set leaves within. Each leaf has a central double-groove ste…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Brandon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B24918
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post-medieval blunt-hooked fastener made from a single piece of silver. The plate is a fleur-de-lis shape, with a large central lozengiform lobe and two much smaller back-to-back C-shaped lobes below. The lis sits above two quarter-circle projections, one to either side, with the curve above and the straight edge below. All of the edges of the plate have a filed sharp bevel, the tool marks from which survive. The plate is not quite flat, but is V-shaped in cross-section, with a central longitudinal angle; on the reverse of this is a groove, suggesting that the plate …
Created on: Wednesday 25th September 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th October 2021
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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-E02E1C
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete medieval or early post-medieval silver mount or dress fastener. One edge has a recessed flange terminating in an old break at one end. The rest of the object consists of a moulded design around a central hole or eye, now incomplete due to old breaks. The decoration appears to comprise two opposed S-shaped tendrils, each terminating in a trefoil. The reverse exhibits traces of parallel grooves indicating the object was cast in a cuttlefish bone mould. The reverse has a single integrally cast rivet with a burred-over end. Dimensions: Leng…
Created on: Friday 29th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C08C59
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete silver-gilt eye-plate from a hook-and-eye dress fastener. The central body of the fastener is in the form of an inverted triangle. The body is surrounded by one circular sewing loop on each side of the basal apex, and a larger medial loop at the topposite side where the corresponding hook would have been inserted. The loops thus form a trefoil shape around the central sub-triangular body. The centre of the piece is decorated with what is probably the head of a cherub moulded in relief. The cheeks of the cherub are puffed out, and puffs of air lead from the mout…
Created on: Sunday 3rd March 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

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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