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: SUR-A268A4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A two-piece lead alloy and copper alloy dress hook. The hook is of trefoil form with three bosses and a central pellet, all within a pelleted border. The hook has an attachment loop on the back and a separate embedded wire hook.
Created on: Thursday 16th December 2010
Last updated: Monday 20th December 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-9A0FC6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Treasure Case 2010 T38 Post Medieval Dress Fitting Date of Discovery: 3rd October 2009 Circumstances of discovery: Whilst searching with a metal detector. Description: Incomplete post medieval pewter dress fitting. Only the main body, decorated with a cast a six petalled flower design, survives. There are two worn breaks at the apex, where the attachment loop would have been located. There is a further break on the opposing edge, from the missing hooked terminal. At this break, an iron cor…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2010
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tendring District', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4105
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Catch-piece from a dress fastener made of a silvery metal, probably a lead/tin alloy with a high proportion of tin. The plate is oval, and decorated with three concentric ridges around the edge; the central ridge is beaded. Within the ridges is a complicated and apparently asymmetric relief scrolly ?foliage design. Each of the long sides has a small decorative projecting lug; one of the short sides has a much larger trefoil lug with two pellets and a perforation. The other short side has a rectangular loop in which to engage the matching hook, with a small circular perforated lug on e…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2000
Last updated: Monday 23rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK PARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-146715
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A lead alloy clothing fastener with a decorated oval plate. This type of fastener is similar to the slightly early dress hooks but lacks a hook and was probably used as an 'eye' for a similar shaped hook. It has a rectangular loop at one end with pierced circular knops below. The oval plate is decorated with three raised concentric beaded oval borders around a central motif. This is unclear but appears to consist of loops or bows with (possibly) floral motifs within. There is a central motif which may be a face. There is a small moulded bi-lobed knop in the centre of each side and anot…
Created on: Thursday 14th December 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ivinghoe Aston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3CFB86
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead or lead alloy and iron medieval to post-medieval dress hook. It has a circular body and two ajoining circular suspension loops extending from one end. A break and traces of iron corrosion product at the opposite end suggests that an iron hook was attached here originally. The outer face of the circular section is decorated with a raised line around the outer edge and a central raised annulet with three double raised lines radiating outwards from it at regular intervals. It has some similarities with the lead/tin example illustrated by Read (2008, 126, no.517), wh…
Created on: Friday 19th June 2015
Last updated: Friday 26th June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hemingstone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-23F862
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large cast lead alloy dress fastener of trefoil form. The fastener is missing its hook as well as its loop. The fastener is similar to Read no.258 or 232 but is larger.
Created on: Thursday 31st October 2013
Last updated: Friday 1st November 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-209187
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete lead dress hook dating to the Post Medieval period (c. AD 1500-1600). The dress hook is trefoil in shape with three slightly raised circular motifs arranged around a central circular pellet, all within a plain boarder, which is missing and damaged in some areas. Each of the circular motifs consists of a central pellet, several radiating spokes and a plain outer circular edge. Beneath the lower motif is a plain rounded knop with a short piece of bent circular-sectioned copper-alloy as part of the pin. On the underside of the dress hook there is a rectangular recession for…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd June 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 1st July 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-076132
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete lead and copper alloy dress fastener (dress hook / hooked tag) of early post-medieval date. The dress hook has a large lozenge-shaped head decorated with raised pellets around a central lozenge-shape cell. On the reverse of the dress hook is a rectangular bar for attachment to clothing. At the base of the plate the copper alloy hook is inserted into a lead sleeve. The hook is complete. Similar dress hooks are illustrated in Read (2008:68). They date to the 16th century AD.
Created on: Friday 13th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 13th April 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-A8F5EA
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval lead-alloy trefoil-shaped dress fastener with three domes, decorated with floral or foliate shapes. The fastener retains the stub of a copper alloy hook and has a separate loop missing from the back. Read no.251 etc.
Created on: Friday 9th June 2017
Last updated: Monday 31st July 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-67CE56
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast lead alloy dress fastener or hooked tag of early post-medieval date. The hooked tag is a rounded oval in plan and has two attachment holes drilled through the decorated face plate. The upper suqared loop and the lower loop or possibly the hook, are missing. The holes through the plate are unusual for a hooked tag of this type and they may have been redrilled after the periphery loops broke off. The decotation on the front of the plate is an abstract spray of flowers. Suggested date AD 1500-1600.
Created on: Tuesday 7th June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 6th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bicester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-40BD85
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire West and Chester
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete two part lead alloy dress fastener dating to the post medieval period (c.AD 1500-1600). The object consists of a hollow rectangular box with a cast hatching to the front and an incomplete open top. The long sides and bottom has a laterally projecting flans. On the reverse at the base is a sub-rectangular thickened section into which is embedded a separate wire hook that has broken off. The object has a dark cream patina. Dimensions: Length 26.1mm; width 12.4mm; thickness 7mm; weight 7.43g A close comparison is illustrated in Read (2008: 53) see no.166, which is also re…
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 4th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-8BB4B0
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast alloy dress hook (fastener), dating to the late medieval perid (16th century). The dress hook has a hollow body, which is rectangular in shape, and is broken at one end, the terminous end has a hook protruding out which is also broken. The sides are decorated with raised dot design, the front is decorated with intended flowers (four leaves) with a raised dot in the middle.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hambleden', grid reference and parish protected.