Record ID: NMS-1AAAC4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval dress fastener, oval eyelet plate with heart-shaped loop at one end and three projecting attachment-loops around outer edge, 16 x 38mm. Cf. similar type in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Monday 21st May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-55B824
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval enamelled dress fastener, corroded oval plate decorated with a mask in relief within radiating foils and tendrils dividing cells of pale green, black and white enamel, broken projection for missing flat-sectioned hook between two broken perforated lugs at lower end, projecting perforated lug (one broken) on both sides and rectangular loop at apex, >24 x >39mm. Cf. similar, un-enamelled, type in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-578FB0
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval hooked fastener, very corroded oval plate with grooved transverse projections at both ends, one with remains of broken loop in the same plane and broken remains of flat-sectioned hook at the other, 17 x >48mm. cf. possible related types in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Thursday 24th May 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-64F2B4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval wire hooked fastener, bent and flattened single strand of wire doubled to form hook with two looped ends for attachment, 13 x 22mm. Cf. Margeson (1993) fig.10, no.90.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Litcham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-650177
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Post Medieval wire hooked fastener, bent and flattened single strand of wire originally doubled to form hook with one of originally two looped ends for attachment, >10 x 19mm. Cf. Margeson (1993) fig.10, no.90.
Created on: Monday 18th June 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Litcham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5D8137
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval openwork object, apparently the same form and size as Read 2001 no. 357, a possible dress fastener. The hook is missing. Two attachment holes, one nearest hook filled with remains of iron rivet. Width 16.5mm. Height 29mm. Thickness 1.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2007
Last updated: Thursday 30th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Acre', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D39593
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval silvered dress fastener, trefoil-shaped back-plate, remains of outer edges of three hollow domed bosses with fillets in the interstices, within remains of a twisted wire border, flattened terminal of separate circular-sectioned hook and rectangular loop soldered onto reverse. 20 x 21mm. Cheap version of form of object more commonly found in silver, Cf. Gaimster, Hayward, Mitchell and Parker Antiq. Journal (2002). 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 4th September 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-FC5573
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval tinned dress fastener, pear-shaped plate decorated with large and small stamped annulets forming flower on a field of lozengiform grid of tiny dots, three knopped projecting attachment-loops around outer edge, broken flat-sectioned hook at base. 29 x 41mm. Cf. broadly similar types in Read (1995) nos.768-9. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 12th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Costessey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D61D05
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval/Post-Medieval lozengiform plate with solder on one face and with very fine rocker-arm engraving in lines around the edges and in cross formation. Probably the front part of a double-hooked dress fastener. Normally the hook is riveted to the plate, e.g. Norwich Households no. 81. 26 x 24mm. Thickness 1mm. 15th –16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 26th November 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Southrepps', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-929606
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval tinned dress fastener, pear-shaped plate decorated with and engraved flower within a border of small stamped annulets, broad flat-sectioned hook projects from base, attachment-loop on both sides (one broken) and at apex. 28 (reconstructed) x 34mm. cf. broadly similar types in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-34B940
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual incomplete Post-Medieval dress fastener, broken, corroded and bent oval blunt-hooked plate decorated with a counter-relief male bust with mane-like hair and collared jacket, broken flat-sectioned hook at side and remains of three projecting attachment-loops around outer edge, >46 x (restored) 34mm. cf. similar types in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 6th January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Surlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1C2644
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
White-metal coated copper alloy eye-plate from a blunt-hooked dress fastener with moulded decoration. Read (2008) Class A Type 2, and apparently as no. 648 (found in East Devon), although in very much better condition. 36.5mm x 22.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 24th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 3rd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quidenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-81A3C7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy dress fastener of Read 2008 early post-medieval Class D Type 2, the separate hook is missing, consists of a twelve-petalled multifoil within a ring of pellets. On the reverse is a squashed loop, with a socket for the hook and in the centre an unexplained sub-square pad. Diameter 22.5mm. 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 29th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D4F6C0
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusual post-medieval copper alloy possible eye-plate from a blunt-hooked clasp, measuring 22 x 36mm. It comprises an oval openwork body with a central perforation in a moulded relief octofoil and an outside edge with opposed large and small trapezoidal loops. It dates from the 16th-17th century.
Created on: Monday 24th January 2011
Last updated: Monday 24th January 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thurne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C4FC91
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Roman dress fastener, which resembles a button-and-loop fastener, but with an integral disc-headed rivet rather than a loop. It has a damaged oval plate and an angled projecting 'button' at one end. It measures 9 x 21mm and probably dates from the 1st century AD.
Created on: Monday 18th April 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 6th August 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-21C753
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An unusual medieval/post-medieval large double-hooked dress fastener, with the hooked bar missing and a separate lozengiform front plate riveted to a hook with a smaller additional square plate in centre. The smaller plate has four engraved grooves producing a quatrefoil with lozengiform foils; the damaged larger plate is decorated with lines of finely engraved rocker-arm decoration, forming a border and a cross with arms running from point-to-point. There remains a grooved circular cut-out at each surviving angle (one missing) and at the mid-point between each angle. A dark 'shadow' …
Created on: Monday 5th July 2010
Last updated: Monday 2nd August 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Watton', 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
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-B988A7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval blunt-hooked dress fastener. The shield-shaped plate (corner missing) is decorated with a V-shaped notch between two concave cut-outs at the top (opposite the hook) and with an elaborate stamped rose. There are copper alloy rivets in the centre near the top and one at the base securing the remains of the short separate hooked back-plate. The hook curls forward and over to touch the front of the plate. 22 x 35mm. 17th-century dress fasteners, made in a variety of shapes, were used in pairs, one hooked and one with an eye (cf. Read 1995 nos.768-772).
Created on: Tuesday 8th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7E0907
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval double-hooked dress fastener, part of one integral hook missing. The plate with elaborately shaped sides and edges is decorated in counter-relief with scrolls and foliar motifs around a frame enclosing an inscription, MARIA, probably a reference to the Virgin. Plate 45.5 x 25.5mm. Overall length estimated at 66mm. Thickness 1.8mm. This is much more elaborate than fasteners found in Norwich (Norwich Households fig.9), and more akin to an example from Amsterdam (Baart et al. 1977 cat. no.160. 16th century
Created on: Wednesday 10th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langley with Hardley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A40506
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval fragment of dress fastener, incomplete pear-shaped plate decorated with large and small stamped annulets, stump of projecting attachment-loop on outer edge, >20 x >17mm. Cf. broadly similar types in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 16th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.