Record ID: WMID-905A14
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A Post-Medieval cast copper alloy toggle (length: 25.3mm; width of ovoid tip/ terminal: 18.4mm; thickness of ovoid tip/ terminal: 6.9mm; weight: 5.20g). The double-loops (inner loop diameter: 3.7mm) seem to have been attached and soldered on to either side of the stem (length: 15.1mm; width: 4mm). The stem was also attached to the ovoid or 'rugby-shaped' tip/ terminal. The pestle is in a worn and poor condition with a dark purple/ brown patchy patina. At present, there is no reliable typological sequence for the development of this category of artefact. Only a few pestles of this t…
Created on: Thursday 27th January 2005
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd November 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-FB6461
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Flintshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
17th century cast copper alloy clothing fastener. Sub-oval convex hollow-backed body with rectangular loop and three pierced protruding lugs.
Created on: Tuesday 1st February 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-B4B714
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy dress fitting, dating to the post medieval period, part of either a dress hook component or hair piece. The fitting consists of a long shaft with pointed termini, and wire wound around the centre. Either side of this central wire band are two bent inwards hooks that form loops either side.
Created on: Tuesday 22nd February 2005
Last updated: Friday 1st November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bankside', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-3A0B97
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast silver-gilt dress-hook with tear-shaped backplate, pinked edge. At the top of the tear a recurving hook is soldered onto the backplate, a rectangular bar attachment is soldered on beneath that. On the front, a raised hollow-cast cushion with four circles divided by knops, the circles formed in filigree. Within the four circles are smaller circles arranged around a knop in the form of a flowerhead. L: 32.4 mm; w: 20.6 mm. 16th Century. The ornamentation can be compared with other fittings reported through the Treasure Act, see Treasure Annual Report 2001, no.148. The raised holl…
Created on: Monday 28th February 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 11th November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Phillack', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-3A8BE5
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver gilt dress hook cast on three sides, each with three concave bosses surrounded by filigree work of rings and pellets, and mounted above by a foliate pendant consisting of five sprigs or stems, each ending in a pellet which mimics a bud. Behind the pendant, a recurving hook is soldered onto the back plate. The back plate is scalloped on its two vertical edges; one scallop on each side is damaged. The back plate is punctured by a rectangular aperture which was probably intended for sewing permanently into the dress. This dress-hook is in the form of a miniature lamp or sconce. T…
Created on: Monday 28th February 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 17th September 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gwithian', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-2D2582
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy clothes fastener of post-medieval date. The object consists of three hemispherical hollow sections which are joined together on a slightly larger plate. Each hemisphere is decorated with three large filigree spirals, with a smaller filigree circle inside and, inside this, a raised dot. The outer edge is toothed and there is a remnant of a possible fourth hemisphere at the point where the other three meet. On the reverse is a raised horizontal attachment bar and, below this, a small circular hole which would originally have held a hook. The upper surface of the piece has …
Created on: Thursday 24th March 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Totternhoe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-6DD212
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late 16th - 17th Century. Copper alloy, cast, lozenge shaped ornate clothes loop fastener with attractive floral decoration, rectangular loop terminal and three small semi-circular attachment holes.
Created on: Friday 8th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-B78036
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sterling silver trefoil-looped dress fastener with a setting and knop soldered to the central loop. The style of the piece looks Georgian but the recorder can find no comparanda. The hallmark is made up of the lion passant for sterling silver, the anchor for Birmingham, and the third stamp, the date letter, is illegible, but looks like a capped letter within a shield shape stamp. Birmingham started marking silver in this way in 1773, and the date letter follows immediately after the anchor between 1773 and 1783. The maker’s mark looks like ‘C Z’?
Created on: Sunday 24th April 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LVPL-7638E0
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a cast cooper alloy hooked clothing fastener. Decorated oval body with two side projections, three attachment loops and a rectangular loop to receive the hook. Dates from the 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORTH YORKSHIRE', grid reference and parish protected.

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.

Record ID: IOW-B13162
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Published
Complete cast in one copper alloy dress fastener of Post Medieval date, sixteenth or seventeenth century (AD 1500 – AD 1700). Length 28mm, maximum width 21mm and a maximum thickness of 3mm. Weight 6.01g. The plate of the fastener is sub-triangular in plan and has an integral loop at one end of the long axis. This loop is sub-rectangular in plan. At the other end of the long axis is a sewing hole, a protruding circular lug, which has a circular perforation, 2.2mm in diameter. There are similar sewing holes at each of the other two corners of the plate. The front face has moulded deco…
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2005
Last updated: Monday 21st March 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chale Parish', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B27B96
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval hooked dress fastener with sheet backplate held by integral rivet, iron rivet in terminal lobe and hook engaged with probably trefoil eyelet. Form as Read 1995 no.995. 37mm x 15mm. Eyelet 18m across. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 18th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hevingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-5AB935
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy and silver dress fastener, 38mm long and 29mm wide. The object is in fair condition with a greenish patina. It consists of an oval plate which has one end cropped to accomodate a rectangular suspension loop, 13mm wide, which is seperated from the main body by a raised collar. At the opposite end and at the centre of each of its curved sides, there is an oval protrusion which has a circular hole drilled into it. The surface has traces of silvering on both sides and the reverse is completly flat. B Read, 2008, pg.170, No. 635.
Created on: Thursday 26th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 27th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-6EBFA6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval incomplete double-hooked fastener, cast oval-sectioned bar with central knop between traces of two pairs of engraved transverse lines, broken at both ends, length at least 58mm. Cf. Margeson (1993) 18-9, Fig.9, nos.79-82.
Created on: Friday 27th May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wendling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C237A5
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval tinned dress fastener, oval eyelet plate decorated with incised floriate design and border with punched annulets, on field of tiny stamped dots in closely-spaced grid, rectangular loop at one end and three projecting knopped attachment-loops around outer edge, 31 x 37mm. Cf. similar type in Read (1995) no.771. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 31st May 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Trowse with Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-179FA4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy dress accessory. Catch plate element of a dress fastener. A large circular, slightly domed plate with three pierced, rounded lugs for attachment. At the left side is a trapezoidal framed loop which would fit with the corresponding hook piece (not present). The lugs are set one either side of the loop and the third opposite it on the right side. This loop also has a small, rounded projection at the right side. The circular plate is decorated with a pellet border inside which is a symmetrical rope and scroll frame around a harp design. the harp is usually the emblem of Irela…
Created on: Saturday 4th June 2005
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-8030D3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval Hooked wire fastener, made from two substantial circular-sectioned strands of wire, one strand heart-shaped with curling butted-together terminals between which lies the other strand (secured by separate strand of tiny twisted wire), one end of which is bent around the broad central section of the first strand, with the other end sharpened and bent back to form the hook, 23 x 32mm. Cf. broadly similar examples and discussion in Margeson (1993), 16th-17th century.
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upwell', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-842F06
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy post-medieval clothing fastener. The pointed oval plate terminates at the rounded end with a flat hook. The rounded hook bends behind the plate. There are three pierced fleur-de-lis shaped lugs around the edge of plate. There is one of each side and one at the pointed terminal. The length is 40.6mm, the width is 28.7mm and the weight is 4.95g.
Created on: Thursday 9th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hibaldstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-024461
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sub-triangular copper alloy mount with a raised lion passant. There is a 1.5mm wide border with small knops at the mid points of the long sides and rivet holes at each of the three corners. The hook has snapped off.
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2005
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Slapton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-7EAF42
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy dress fastener of Post-Medieval date. At the top of the object there is a generally rectangular suspension loop. Beneath this are two small semi-circular sections with a large generally oval section beneath and a further small semi-circular extension beneath this. These sections have moulded decoration on the upper surface in the form of a rope border with floral and foliate motifs on the lower two sections. There are three circular attachment loops, one on either side at the junction of the two upper semi-circular elements and the large oval element, and a third in the c…
Created on: Tuesday 21st June 2005
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd August 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hambledon CP', grid reference and parish protected.