Record ID: SOM-4D9AF6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy post-medieval dress fastener, c. 16th century AD (1500 - 1650 AD) . The fastener is the 'female' tag from pair of hooked tags; it has a sub-oval plate and would have had a large rectangular loop at one end, this has broken away. Either side of the plate would be two rounded attachment knops, the left is missing but the right remains. There is a third debased trefoil attachment knop at the base of the clasp. The eye section of the clasp is convex, with moulded relief, consisting of a hollow-dome bearing a wreathed iri…
Created on: Thursday 8th February 2024
Last updated: Thursday 15th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cullompton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-E92FC3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy post-medieval dress fastener, c. 16th century AD (1500 - 1650 AD) . The fastener is the 'female' tag from pair of hooked tags; it has a sub-oval plate with a large rectangular loop at one end. Either side of the plate are two rounded attachment knops, with a third debased trefoil attachment knop at the base of the clasp. The eye section of the clasp is convex, with moulded relief, consisting of a hollow-dome bearing a wreathed irish harp. Measurements: Length: 42.89mm Width: 34.24mm Thickness: 3.65mm Weight: 10.96g. See Read (2008) pg 16…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 24th January 2024
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Record ID: SOM-97A8AB
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy dress fastener, c. AD 1600-1700. Read Class A Type 2. The fastener is flat with a sub-oval plate, flattened at one end and pointed at the other. It has 3 pierced attachment lugs projecting outwards: one from the point and one either side of the widest part of the oval plate. At the flattened end is a strip for a strap which is broken. The plate is decorated on one side with incised vegetal/foliate motifs comprising a large central stem with a possible flower at the top (at the point of the oval plate) and leaves projecting outwards fr…
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ilminster', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-407FF5
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy dress fastener, c. 17th century AD. Read Class A Type 2. The fastener is flat with a sub-oval plate, flattened at one end and pointed at the other. It has five pierced attachment lugs projecting outwards: one from the point, one either side of the widest part of the oval plate, and one at each side flush with the flattened end. The loops on the point and the right hand side edge are broken. The plate is decorated on one side with incised vegetal/foliate motifs comprising a large central stem with a possible flower at the top (at the point of the oval plate) a…
Created on: Friday 27th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
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Record ID: SOM-405427
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy post-medieval dress fastener, c. 16th century AD. The fastener is the 'female' tag from pair of hooked tags; it has a sub-oval plate with a large rectangular loop at one end (now partially broken). Either side of the plate are two smaller pierced lugs, with a third at the rear of the tag for attachment (the third is also broken). The centre of the plate is decorated with a harp motif, which is likely to be a south western type. Cf. OXON-A8A1BE and GLO-EE60B7. Length: 37.22mm, width: 33.99mm, thickness: 2.94mm, weight; 7.18g.
Created on: Friday 27th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd February 2023
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Record ID: SOM-A66E14
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy single-hooked clasp of late medieval to early post-medieval date, c. 16th century AD. The form of the dress fastener comprises a trefoil of hollow domed bosses, each decorated with pellets and twisted wire filigree. The central circular depression is empty, but may originally have held glass or gem. Some evidence of white metal coating. On the back there is a soldered copper alloy attachment bar, and at the bottom, evidence of a broken hook.  Read, 2008: Class D Type 6, nos. 260-3. Cf. SF-CD194A and ESS-9B9893. 
Created on: Thursday 27th October 2022
Last updated: Thursday 3rd November 2022
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Record ID: SOM-C89B7F
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early Post-Medieval dress fastener dating to AD.1550-1700. The dress fastener consists of the eye section of an hook and eye fastener. The cast plate is circular in plan and it is now bent backwards on one side. On the front it is decorated with a moulded-relief openwork depicting a central six-petalled flower. Around the flower are four mouldings in the form of pairs of curled lines. These mouldings that start on the ridged outer border of the circular plate and curve away form each other as they go towards the centre. There are holes between the pairs, curls and e…
Created on: Thursday 24th September 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 27th October 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fiddington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-DCD2EA
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper-alloy hooked clasp, dating to c. AD 1645-1660. This one section of the two part hooked clasp but the hook or loop is missing. The object has a central circular plate, very slightly convex with a hollow back. There is a small sewing loop on either side of the old break where a hook or rectangular loop would have originally projected, one sewing loop is also broken. A third and larger sewing loop protrudes from opposite side. The larger loop has a knop on the outer edge. The front of the plate is cast in low relief with a depiction of a shield containing …
Created on: Tuesday 14th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Muchelney', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-7174B4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-medieval, cast, copper-alloy, one-piece, moulded-relief dress fastener with the arms of the Commonwealth, dating to AD 1647 - 1660. The piece is the eye section of a hook-and-eye fastener and consists of an oval plate with three rounded attachment knops and a bifurcate ornamental knop on each side. Two of these knops are at its base, flanking what would have been an integral sub-rectangular attachment loop which is now broken and only indicated by a projecting stump; these knops are c6mm in diameter with central piercings c2.5mm in diameter. The final knop is placed…
Created on: Thursday 9th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Staple Fitzpaine CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-FD1C67
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post-Medieval copper alloy dress fastener, probably dating to c. AD 1550-1700. The fastener consists of an oval plate with three perforated lugs for attachment. Two of these lugs are at its base, flanking an rectangular hook section projecting 9.0mm from the base of the fastener which has been broken at the turn of the hook. The final lug is placed at the opposite end, expanding from a slightly flanged collar. Additionally, expanding from the centre of either side of the fastener are two bifurcating scrolled knops. The front of the plate is decorated, with a foliat…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 10th July 2019
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Record ID: SOM-7C87C7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy dress fastener with the arms of the Commonwealth dating to c. AD 1647 - 1660. The fastener consists of an oval plate with three perforated lugs for attachment. Two of these lugs are at its base, flanking what would have been an integral sub-rectangular attachment loop which is now broken and only indicated by two projecting stumps. The final lug is placed at the opposite end, and flanked by two rounded knops with raised spiral (scroll) decoration continuing the raised border . Additionally, expanding from the centre of either side long of the fastener are t…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2019
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wedmore', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-5A443C
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval cast copper alloy Class E single sharp-hooked clasp, Type 1, rectangular with moulded relief. It has a longitudinal rectangular raised panel, each side engrailed (three knops on each side) and has a double ridged ribbed collar at the junction of plate and rearward facing hook. The hook is complete and extends backward 9.6mm from the point of the bend. The surround of the raised panel has incised, zigzag lines of decoration and this wriggle-work can also be seen on the raised panel in a cross shape that possibly had a flower motif at the centre. The fastener is 27.…
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shrewton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-215EBC
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy dress fastener, probably dating to c. 1550-1700. The loop or eye section of a two-part clasp. The object consists of an oval plate with a rectangular attachement loop at one end (now lost). A pointed attachment lug projects from the opposite end of the plate, with two further projecting from the sides of the plate. The plate is decorated with a stamped plume motif, within a border of punched annulets. Dimensions: length 26.1mm; width 27.4mm; thickness 1.2mm; weight 2.60g. Read (2008) illustrates a range of similar blunt hooked clasps, with this e…
Created on: Friday 19th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-0BD72E
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy dress fastener, probably dating to c. 1550-1700. The loop or eye section of a two-part clasp. The object consists of an oval plate with a rectangular attachement loop at one end. A pointed attachment lug projects from the opposite end of the plate, with two further projecting from the sides of the plate. The plate is undecorated, but is white metal coated. Dimensions: length 36.8mm; width 26.7mm; thickness 2.0mm; weight 5.61g. Read (2008) illustrates a range of similar blunt hooked clasps, with this example fitting into his class A, type 2, dated t…
Created on: Friday 13th October 2017
Last updated: Friday 13th October 2017
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Record ID: SOM-4562B3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper-alloy hooked clasp, probably dating to c. AD 1600-1700. The eye section of the two part hooked clasp. The object has a central circular plate, very slightly convex with a hollow back, from one side expands a now incomplete integral rectangular attachment loop with a round integral perforated lug opposite, the lug terminating in a small pointed knop. Two further rounded lugs expand from the edge of the plate at 11 o'clock and 7 o'clock relative to the orientation of the decoration (with the attachment loop and pointed lug being at 9 and 3 o'clock respe…
Created on: Wednesday 16th August 2017
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
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Record ID: SOM-C4D407
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy dress fastener, probably dating to c. AD 1550-1700. The fastener consists of an oval plate with three perforated lugs for attachment, two at its base, flanking an integral sub-rectangular attachement loop and one at the opposite end, expanding from a slightly flanged collar. Expanding from the centre of either side is a bifurcating scrolled knop. The front of the plate is decorated, all cast in low relief, with a central oval field containing a scrolled motif potentially incorperating a central en face mask. This is defined by a solid oval border, with a s…
Created on: Thursday 10th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West and Middle Chinnock CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-91528C
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval copper-alloy hooked clasp, probably dating to c. AD 1600-1700. The eye section of the two part hooked clasp. The object has a central circular plate, very slightly convex with a hollow back, from one side expands an integral rectangular attachment loop with a round integral perforated lug opposite, the lug terminating in a small pointed knop. Two further rounded lugs expand from the edge of the plate at 11 o'clock and 7 o'clock relative to the orientation of the decoration (with the attachment loop and pointed lug being at 9 and 3 o'clock respectively). The …
Created on: Thursday 8th June 2017
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Carhampton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-081907
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
The loop of a Post-Medieval copper alloy dress fastener, probably dating to c. 1600-1700. The centre of the lozengiform plate has a raised foliate design with a central quartered berry and four leaves in cross formation with four small circular berries in the angles. This design is within a broadly lozengiform line border formed of four lines with scrolled ends, at the middle corners forming a pair of projecting rounded knops at either side. There are two pierced lobes flanking the rectangular loop, which survives intact. At the opposite end to the hook is a third pierced lobe with pr…
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2017
Last updated: Friday 4th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nether Stowey CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-EFA98A
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy dress fastener, dating to c. AD 1500 - 1650. The convex plate is oval in plan with a hollow reverse, with incised decoration of five foliate leaves. From the base fo the plate there is a flat, rectangular extension which is folded forward to form a hook but which is now broken. The hook is flanked by two rounded attachment loops, with a third at the oposing end of the oval plate. The fastener measures 38.1mm in length, 16.7mm in width and is 4.5mm thick; it weighs 6.69g. A near identical example can be found published by Read (2008: 169, no.630), which …
Created on: Thursday 23rd February 2017
Last updated: Sunday 19th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Charlton Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-4B04FA
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy dress fastener of post-medieval date. The fastener consists of a flat, oval plate with tear drop-shaped knops at one end and in the centre of each side. Each knop is perforated for attachment. At the other end of the plate there is a blunt flat hook, which has been formed by bending back a narrower, tapering section of the plate. The object has a white metal coating and is undecorated apart from two transverse incised lines just above the hook. There are two parallels in Read's 'Hooked Clasps and Eyes' (2008, nos. 636 and 637). Read categorises the type as Early po…
Created on: Friday 3rd February 2017
Last updated: Friday 3rd February 2017
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