Record ID: NARC-3B5F61
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy object of probable late Iron Age to Roman date. It is currently unclear exactly what this artefact was used for, but there is a possibility that it is either a dress fastener or a terret ring. The article consists of a semi-circular loop. At a right angle to the loop, at its flat sided rear there is a projection with a T shaped gap in the rear, presumably for attachment. The top of this projection is also semi-circular and has faint remains of incised decoration. There is also a circular indentation in the centre of the projection. No parallels for this object have yet b…
Created on: Tuesday 11th July 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 17th January 2012
No spatial data available.

Record ID: LVPL-7B5346
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Sub-oval shaped with three protruding eyelets and a rectangular loop. Decorated on front with a palmate pattern surrounded by a border of ring and dots. Traces of white metal coating on front and back.
Created on: Friday 14th July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-739C36
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn, but complete cast copper-alloy toggle of post-medieval date. The object has a circular cross-section but is pointed oval shape in plan. Cast integrally there is a flat-sectioned arm coming from the side of the toggle which terminates in two small circular loops (set together like a figure of eight). The metal is reddish in colour with a dusting of light green corrosion product. This object is one of a group of artefacts which were originally identified by Ralph Jackson and Sally Worrell as cosmetic pestles, dating from the late Iron Age or early Roman period, AD 100 - 200…
Created on: Wednesday 26th July 2006
Last updated: Monday 2nd August 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hawkley CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-C8CD50
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy dress hook, cast as one piece with the hook end bent upwards over the upper surface. The main part of the object is curved (convex). This is lozenge-shaped with two pierced lobes at the hook end, one either side of the stem of the hook and a rectangular panel containing a row of pellets between them. The hexagonal central area has a foliate design with a central quartered berry and four leaves in cross formation with four small circular berries between. This design is within a border of pellets with a pair of rounded knops at either side. The opposite end to the hook al…
Created on: Friday 11th August 2006
Last updated: Friday 4th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hanslope', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-4763B7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An oval plate with four rivet holes, one in each projecting lobe, and a rectangular attachment loop to take a similar hooked fitting. The cast decoration on the plate comprises a central human face with surrounding swags and drapes.
Created on: Thursday 17th August 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CAM-FE05B7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy clothing fastener dating from the late fourteenth to sixteenth centuries AD. The fastener comprises two plates terminating in curved hooks. The plates are secured by means of a hinge. The upper surface of both plates is decorated with a stamped shield pattern. The fastener measures 22mm in length and 6mm in width.
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 16th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-577C47
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy blunt-hooked dress fastener with inlaid black and white enamel. The object is leaf-shaped or drop-shaped, with a bent-over hook at the wider end. The leaf-shaped area is formed from a flat plate of copper alloy, with a raised rim and three projecting attachment holes, one at the pointed tip and a pair at the widest point. All are now broken. The upper surface has raised scrolly decoration, perhaps floral, providing fields for enamel; one field, at the base of the hook, is now empty and may have lost its enamel. The wide blunt hook has been cast integrally to the …
Created on: Monday 11th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 23rd June 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Alfriston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-7EF084
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy hooked plate. The plate is formed from a flat sheet of copper alloy. It is an elongated oval in shape with a circular attachment loop at one terminal. The hook at the other end has been straightened, and the tip has broken off; the break is worn. The oject is worn and has a mid reddish brown patina. It is post medieval in date.
Created on: Monday 25th September 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Patching', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A40506
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval fragment of dress fastener, incomplete pear-shaped plate decorated with large and small stamped annulets, stump of projecting attachment-loop on outer edge, >20 x >17mm. Cf. broadly similar types in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 27th September 2006
Last updated: Wednesday 16th September 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-E62314
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A damaged and incomplete copper-alloy hooked tag or hasp and clasp fastener of suggested 17th century AD date. An illustration in Bailey's book "Buttons and fasteners" (2004; pp. 100) shows how this fastener is thought to have been used in conjunction with a second plate in order to fasten a garment. The object consists of a lozenge-shaped plate with a projecting loop or sewing hole (only one intact) on the top and each of the side points. At the bottom, a moulded band with a border of triangles in relief separates the lozenge-shaped plate from the hook section. The point of the hook …
Created on: Thursday 12th October 2006
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clothall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F3EFC2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval tinned dress fastener, bent and corroded oval hooked plate decorated with cast counter-relief foliate design, broken flat-sectioned hook at one end and three projecting attachment-loops around outer edge (one broken), 22 x >43mm. Cf. of broadly similar type in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Emneth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-F4C1D2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of cast copper alloy clothing fastener dating to the 16th-17th century. Oval body, slightly convex, four peripheral pierced lugs, a larger round lug at one end and a broken loop at the opposite end. In worn condition but appears to have floriate deciration.
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-F5A2F2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Oval shaped dress fastener with moulded floral decoration. At the base are two loops for attachment.
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2006
Last updated: Monday 16th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Snape', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-1E09E2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval hooked dress fastener, most of hook missing, white-metal coated flat ovoid with three attachment holes in rounded lobes. Decorated with engraved and punched trefoil or three-headed flower on stem between leaves within a border of punched annulets. >38mm x 29mm. This would have been paired with a looped counterpart (Read 1995, nos.768-9 and 771-2). 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 8th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Garvestone', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-90E204
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy dress fastener or clasp decorated with plumes and scrolls surrounding a bearded face, which appears to have a hood and a collar, below which is a scallop shell motif. The fastener or clasp would have attached to a similar piece in the form of an eye, with an aperture at one end. The four openwork holes, two on either side of the scallop shell, and two at the end of the plumes, would have allowed the fastener to have been sewn onto a garment. Bailey (1992) illustrates a similar example in style on page 32, No.28, which is dated from the 16th to the 17th century. …
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Padstow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-DE8687
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of copper alloy post-medieval dress fastener. What remains is the main body and loop of the fastener but no indications of a hook or loop below. The body is formed from an openwork plate, flat in section, that has two opposing divergent kidney-shaped piercings. The outer edge of the plate is shaped to follow the indent of the kidney shapes. The attachment loop at the top of the fitting is rectangular, typical of dress fittings of this date. Otherwise the rest of the fitting is entirely missing. The front face of the fitting is decorated with incised zig zags around the piercin…
Created on: Friday 17th November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOMDOR-327544
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy hooked fastener of probable 17th century date. The dress fastener comprises a sub-circular plate with one round attachment loop intact, the stub of a second and the third entirely missing. The three circular loops would have been spaced equally around the edge of the plate. Between two of the loops there would have been a rectangular eyelet, also now missing, which would have accommodated a complementary fastener's forward-curving hook. The moulded decoration on the front of the fastener consists of a moulded-in-relief cross of St George within a wre…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2006
Last updated: Friday 9th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mareham on the Hill', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-58A946
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval copper alloy hooked dress fastener, end of blunt hook missing, white-metal coated flat ovoid with three attachment holes in rounded lobes. Slight lobes on both sides at junction of hook and plate are linked on the front face by a pair of engraved lines. 45mm x 27mm. This would have been paired with a looped counterpart (Read 1995, nos.768-9 and 771-2). 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 23rd November 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Edgefield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-55AFE7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tinned copper alloy dress fastener.
Created on: Tuesday 5th December 2006
Last updated: Saturday 5th January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sholden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-6DB755
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval tinned dress fastener, corroded scallop-shaped eyelet plate with broken eye between two attachment-loops at pointed end and sing broken attachment-loops projecting from broad end, 21 x >34mm. Cf. similar type in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2006
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upwell', grid reference and parish protected.