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: NMS-88F51E
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post medieval copper-alloy dress fastener. An eye-piece of a blunt-hooked clasp of Read’s (2008) Class A, Type 2 and similar to ibid No. 648. The plate is sub-oval (slightly wider at the eye end) and shallowly convex on the front, concave on the reverse. There are three projecting circular attachment loops, one at the narrow end and two opposing each other at the wide end. The eye, situated directly opposite the narrow end, is incomplete and slightly distorted. The break are not recent. It appears to have been originally oval and there is a small V-shaped notch at the …
Created on: Friday 25th August 2023
Last updated: Monday 2nd October 2023
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Record ID: NMS-8844B7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post medieval copper-alloy dress fastener. An eye-piece of a blunt-hooked clasp of Read’s (2008) Class A, Type 2 and similar to ibid No. 643. It is a flat sub-oval plate with a rectangular loop or eye at one end. At the opposite end and at the centre of each long edge there is a projecting circular attachment loop, although one of these latter is incomplete due to a worn break. The two complete ones have a very small round knop on their outside edges. There are two small concavities on the internal edge of the outer transverse bar of the eye, probably a result of …
Created on: Friday 25th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 29th September 2023
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Record ID: NMS-F007B4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy clasp of Read 2008 early post-medieval Class G, Type 1 wire quadruple sharp-hooked clasp constructed from three lengths of wire of two gauges, the narrower one tightly wound around the other two, very similar to ibid. nos. 572-3, both from the River Thames foreshore, London. Only two other examples, also from the River Thames, have been recorded on this database (PUBLIC-76F0EB and PUBLIC-1BBE96). They differ from the present piece in being made up of five and four lengths of wire respectively. Such objects were perhaps "associate…
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 31st August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-17332A
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Discoidal mount of copper alloy sheet with a central hole filled with remains of an iron rivet and surrounded by rust on both faces. The front face is engraved with a ring of rocker-arm around the edge and eight lines of the same radiating from the centre. The object is probably part of a Read 2008, early post-medieval double sharp-hooked clasp of Class S, of which two other examples with circular plates have been recorded in Norfolk (NMS-6DA7EF and NMS-AE34D1). However, rivets that secure the front plate to the double hook in this class are normally of copper alloy. For a shield-shap…
Created on: Friday 14th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 15th February 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A4D497
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete post-medieval copper alloy oval dress fastener of Read 2008, single blunt-hooked clasp Class A, Type 8, with part of the hook missing. Details of the counter-relief scrolled ornament are very similar to those of LEIC-FD9814. Extant length 34.9mm. Width 20.2mm. Thickness 1.7mm. 17th century.
Created on: Monday 16th August 2021
Last updated: Thursday 24th August 2023
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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: 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: NMS-AB3A70
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post-medieval gilded silver dress fastener made in two parts soldered together. The plate is circular, slightly convex on the front, with the edge 'pinked' or cut into several small convex rounded scallops. This edge is interrupted in three places, each a quarter-way round the circle, for projecting lugs pierced with circular sewing holes; two have broken away and one is complete. Within this edge is a circular filigree border made from twisted wire; within this is a ring of 15 pellets, each one surrounded by a tiny collar of twisted wire. Next comes another circle of twi…
Created on: Tuesday 12th May 2020
Last updated: Monday 6th June 2022
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