Record ID: PUBLIC-E99C55
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy dress fastener of probable post medieval date (c.1550-1700). Description: The body is sub-oval in form and flat, 1.9mm thickness, with old breaks at either end. There are two attachment loops on either side surmounted by small finials (there would probably have been a third attachment loop at the base, now missing). At the top, the old break would suggest the start of a narrowed arm projecting from the body, so presumably a missing hook as opposed to a rectangular strap loop, as is often seen on this type of fastener. The face depicts an expanding …
Created on: Tuesday 20th April 2021
Last updated: Friday 3rd September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Worth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-C39666
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy dress hanger of post-medieval date (c.1680-1720). Description: The object has been cast in one piece, with a now incomplete hanging fixture on the reverse and the remains of the rivet fixture at the base. The top of the object is a formed loop with an internal diameter measuring 4.71mm and with sloping shoulders to form a rounded corner, sub-rectangular, decorated pendant type shape with embossed edges and further decoration, including the remains of some gilding. The top half of the decoration has a pear-shaped raised edge and a raised central hum…
Created on: Tuesday 6th April 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 1st September 2021
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Record ID: SF-F4BC88
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: An incomplete gilded silver post-medieval rectangular dress hook. The body consists of a rectangular plate to the rear, with knobs projecting from its outer edges at equal intervals, one on one of the outer corners missing, and a moulded trefoil knop projecting from the centre of the lower edge. A rectangular section projects from the centre of the outer face, its outer face decorated with a raised linear border and a filigree and granule decoration in the centre. To the reverse there is a break where the missing hook would have projected originally. The surface gilding su…
Created on: Monday 15th March 2021
Last updated: Friday 6th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sudbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMGW-3FAADE
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Monmouthshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval tin-alloy (‘white metal’) clothes fastener of mid-17th century date (1649-54) The cast dress-fastener is the looped component of the hook and loop fastener and is complete (with a length of 36.9mm, a thickness of 1.5mm – 1.9mm and a weight of 4.8g). The mount is of oval form with a circular attachment loop (3.2mm diameter) at the apex and two others flanking the terminal rectangular loop (7.8mm x 2.9mm internal dimensions). The edge of the mount is decorated with cast scrolls, terminating at the centre and near the apex (giving a maximum width of 21.0mm…
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2021
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
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Record ID: DEV-30D184
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy dress fastener, dating to the post medieval period, c. AD 1500-1650. The object consists of a rectangular sewing loop, which has slightly bevelled edges. this is attached to an openwork decorative plate with central moulded decoration. There are four apertures on either side of the central moulded design, one of which is now infilled with sediment. The moulded design is a central rounded object composed of at least seven raised circles, which Read identifies as a pinecone or pineapple motif (Read 2008: 104). This is placed atop a downward pointing triangl…
Created on: Tuesday 9th February 2021
Last updated: Sunday 7th March 2021
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Record ID: SF-AF7157
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval gilded silver dress fastener dating to circa AD 1550-1700. It is comprised of a sub-triangular sheet of silver on the front face of which are three circular panels arranged in a 2-1 formation. Each panel is comprised of a twisted wire filigree border. Set within each border are three smaller twisted wire filigree circular elements arranged in a 1-2 formation. In the centre of these smaller elements is a silver pellet, although the top right pellet has been placed within the upper twisted wire filigree. Projecting from the outer edge on one side is an integr…
Created on: Friday 22nd January 2021
Last updated: Thursday 6th January 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickhambrook', grid reference and parish protected.

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: SUSS-363478
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn and incomplete Post Medieval silver gilt dress fastener dating to c. AD 1500-1700. This is the eye clasp of a single wire blunt hooked fastener and is comprised of a sub-circular sheet of silver on the front face of which is a raised relief openwork cinquefoil. A circular sewing loop projects from the outer edge on each side of the two lower lobes, and the larger integral eye sits at the apex, extending in a circular loop from either side of the top lobe. The back of the dress fastener is plain and undecorated with an indentation that may be a stamped mark. Measureme…
Created on: Monday 4th January 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Tenterden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-090FC4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper alloy wire blunt hooked clasp of Read's Class A, Type 1, dating from AD 1500 - 1900. The clasp is made from a single piece of heavy gauge wire, which has been bent back on itself to form a hook and has its ends curled into a pair of flanking attachment loops. It has a dark green patina. This form was used until modern times, but the patination suggests an earlier date. Compare with SUR-3488DA and Read (2008) page 155 - 156. Length: 28.34 mm Width: 13.16 mm Thickness: 8.54 mm Weight: 2.48 g
Created on: Monday 21st December 2020
Last updated: Thursday 15th April 2021
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Record ID: DEV-8DB122
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete gilded copper alloy dress hook dating to the early post medieval period, c. AD 1500-1560. The terminal of the hook is broken, but the main body of the fastener and the attachment loop survive in good condition, with gilding surviving on the upper surface in protected areas. The object is triangular in shape, although the three angles of the triangle are rounded. It is decorated with a floral motif, with a central circle with a smaller cog-like circle with rectilinear knops and a central pellet at its heart, possibly imitating the central stamens of a flower. This is…
Created on: Thursday 3rd December 2020
Last updated: Thursday 15th July 2021
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Record ID: LON-587021
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy wire-work hook dating from the 16th century. The hook is constructed from five lengths of wire bound together in the centre by finer gauge wire. The ends of four wire lengths are decoratively splayed and then coiled. The two outer wire-lengths on the opposing ends are also splayed and coiled and the central three stands are bent over and flattened to form a hook. Two of the ends are curled over to form loops and the third is cut and fed through the other two loops to secure it. The shape of the artefact is slightly distorted. A similar hook was described a…
Created on: Monday 30th November 2020
Last updated: Monday 29th November 2021
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Record ID: KENT-5354B6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast silver dress fastener (eye) (Read's Class A, Type 2) of post-medieval date (c.1600-1700). Description: The object consists of an oval hollow dome bearing a ridged trilobate collar at the juncture of the plate and eye flanked by attachment loops. A second trilobate collar decorates the opposite end from which a larger attachment loop extends with an additional decorative knop. The eye is oval and so would have taken a blunt-hooked fastener. Measurements: length: 24.6mm; width: 16.2mm; thickness: 3.3mm; weight: 1.61g Discussion: Read (2008) classifies thi…
Created on: Monday 30th November 2020
Last updated: Thursday 31st March 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Goudhurst', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-BC394C
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete, iron medieval to post-medieval dress fastener dating to the 13th-16th centuries AD. Double hook with curled terminals and a central lozenge sheet which shows iron corrosion. No decoration is visible. This item resembles a hooked attachment for spur leathers - for parallel see Read 2001 p.60 no. 503 and Ellis 2004 p. 148-149, fig. 106 no. 365-371 which are dated to the c.13th-16th century. Length: 29.26 mm; Width (lozenge plate): 18.23 mm; Thickness: 8.52 mm; Weight: 4.36g Ellis, B. M. A Spurs and spur fittings in Clark, J. ed., 2004. The medieval horse and i…
Created on: Monday 23rd November 2020
Last updated: Friday 11th December 2020
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Record ID: BERK-A6DF6C
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval copper alloy dress hook, oval in shape with a broken hook at the end and with two holes at one end; at the other a single hole. The face of the hook is decorated with three oval rings. In the centre an series of three raised small knobs surrounded by curvilinear decoration. See BERK-85D151 and SUSS-B5CC4B for similar. Length: 40mm, Width: 22.3mm, Thickness: 1.4mm, Weight: 5.4g
Created on: Tuesday 10th November 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 25th November 2020
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Record ID: YORYM-6E4B57
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy and enamelled dress fastener of Post-Medieval dates, c.AD 1550 – 1700. Reads Class A, Type 2. The clasp is sub-ovate in plan with one remaining attachment loop to the wider end of the plate. The remains of two other loops can also be determined: one to the opposite side of the plate, the other to the narrower end. These display worn breaks. The centre of the front of the plate is decorated with a median segmented band with three oblique ovoid recesses to either side. At the wider end of the plate, sub-triangular recesses are also present to eith…
Created on: Wednesday 14th October 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 14th October 2020
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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: 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: KENT-827486
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn near complete copper alloy dress hook eye of the early Post Medieval period, circa AD 1600 - AD 1700. Description: The hook has sub-oval plate with a rectangular looped eye at one end. There are two perforated knops flanking the eye for attachment and a third at the other end of the main plate. The terminal attachment knop has a decorative scrolls at its base. There are decorative scroll knops either side of the middle of the plate. The main plate has cast relief decoration consisting of three borders, the outer one formed from the edge of the plate, the inner is feat…
Created on: Monday 3rd August 2020
Last updated: Monday 3rd August 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-430730
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Medieval or Post Medieval possible dress fastener dating from AD 1350 - 1600. It is an eye- or catch-piece and may have had a matching hook piece when in use. The fastener is a flat plate of complex shape. One end is trilobed. The two outer lobes have an engrailed curved edge but are otherwise plain, depicted like two semi-circles placed tip to tip next to each other. In the centre is a smaller more rounded lobe, which projects further. It is decorated with raised pellets covering the front surface, and has a smooth edge. The other end of the mount is sub-rectangular and much…
Created on: Friday 31st July 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd December 2020
Spatial data recorded.