Record ID: LIN-92A511
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post-medieval, cast, copper alloy dress fastener. Read Class A Type 1 'three attachment knops' dated to c.AD 1500-1700. The dress fastener has a central oval plate with a trefoil of attachment-knobs with circular perforations, in the ogee style. At one end is a rectangular loop, now partially broken. Undecorated. Mid-grey patina. Silvery sheen. Length: 39.30 mm; Width: 29.26 mm; Thickness: 1.99 mm; Weight: 6.36g Read Class p. 170, no. 635
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 27th October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-6858CD
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete silver mount or dress fastener. One half (the lower half) is flat and undecorated with a curving lower edge. The other half has decoration of two high-relief C-shaped scrolls with their backs towards the flat half and their points upwards The point of one scroll has been lost, but the surviving scroll is open at the top, and appears to be in the shape of a flat ribbon which is wound up at either end, and the inner end bound to the inner end of the other scroll. Between the two scrolls, and partly within both halves, is a sub-oval o…
Created on: Monday 23rd October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-FB5922
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval cast copper alloy hooked dress fastener, probably dating to c.1500-1650. Sub-rectangular body with rounded side protrusions at the base either side of an extended gently tapering hook arm that bends backwards, terminating in a sharp point. At the apex is a damaged trapezoidal attachment loop. Moulded decoration on the face, with three horizontal transverse lines above swirls on the protrusions either side and transverse lines on the hook arm. The reverse is plain and the surface displays a corroded pale green / brown patina. Length 39.7mm…
Created on: Wednesday 18th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-E7E243
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy blunt-hooked dress fastener of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1600 - 1700. Reads Class A, Type 2. The main plate is sub-ovate with two complete ovate attachment knops projecting from either side of the outer edges. A third attachment knop is present to the pointed end of the plate. The wider end of the plate displays worn projections which would have formed an integral eye. The upper surface of the plate is decorated with a spray of three flowers bordered by ring and dot motifs. The metal has a mid-grey shiny patina suggesting a white-metal coating and is worn. …
Created on: Tuesday 17th October 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-D3A328
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy Post-Medieval toggle piece from a hook and eye style fitting, of Read's Early Post-Medieval unclassifed toggle-clasps Type 5 (Read, 2008: no. 761), dating from AD 1500 - 1700. It may be pasrt of a sword belt fitting. It has a flat plate with a damaged attachment end and pairs of large semi-circular notches to each side. At the terminal end is a projecting disc that would have enabled the object to lock in place with the corresponding catch/eye piece. At the centre of the attachment end and at the centre of the plate towards the terminal are the remains…
Created on: Monday 16th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
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Record ID: PUBLIC-265B27
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy openwork dress fastener of Read's class E type 5 dating to c.1500-1600. Read (2008) p.110, no.436. Approximately half of the fastener survives, comprising of a plano-convex cross-section with a moulded rope-work body (in the form of a trefoil Hungerford knot) forming two adjacent loops and a further incomplete loop below. A trapezoidal attachment loop is situated above, with a large moulded pellet on each arm connecting the straight outside edge. The surface displays an even green patina. Length 16.7mm, width 19.3mm, thickness 1.4mm and w…
Created on: Sunday 8th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 1st November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Rowling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F1B64E
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval cast copper alloy openwork dress fastener, dating to c. AD 1600-1750. The find is the 'eye' half of a hook and eye fastener. The main body of the find is heart-shaped in plan with two small lobes above the heart. The rectangular loop which would have been above the two lobes in order to accept the clasp, is now missing, due to an old break. There is a trilobed projection into the centre of the heart at its apex. At the base of the heart is a short, rectangular crossbar above a lozenge shaped projection that is pierced with a circular h…
Created on: Thursday 5th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 20th October 2023
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Record ID: SF-C47FD7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: A complete gilded silver post-medieval dress hook. The object consists of a composite, ornately moulded, sub-circular central section with a sub-rectangular silver wire attachment loop projecting to one end of its reverse and a silver sharp rear-facing hook to the other end. The central section is composed of a separate circular, annular-shaped border, eight knops projecting from regular intervals around its edge, with a flower-shaped disc and then a smaller flower-shaped boss attached via a silver rivet to the centre of its outer face and a solid disc-shaped plate coverin…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd October 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Troston', 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
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Record ID: DUR-030F20
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: County Durham
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy dress fastener from the early post medieval period (c. AD 1550-1650). The upper face of the fastener consists of a central oval plate decorated at the centre with a foliate motif within a plain border. On the outside edge of the plate are two decorative knops, one on either side. There are three attachment eyes, two either side of the incomplete rectangular loop and one at the opposing end. The end attachment eye is missing. The rectangular loop at one end would have taken the corresponding hook of another fastener on the opposite edge of the garment to br…
Created on: Tuesday 12th September 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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