Record ID: HESH-56A9A3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy hooked tag of probable post medieval date (1500-1700). The plate of the hooked tag is broadly oval in plan with a series of projecting knops (some of which have been pierced) positioned evenly around the central plate. An integral rectangular projection extends from one end: this has been bent to form a loop / hook which folds back upon itself. The hook tag measures 44.7mm in length, 21.6mm in width, is a maximum of 5.4mm thick (body plate is 2.5mm thick) and weighs 8.14 grams. The plate of the hooked tag has a central possibly floral decoration formed from a serie…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2007
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-881F94
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy hasp and clasp fastener of Post-Medieval date. The plate is flat and oval in shape. At the exterior edge it has a raised collar followed by the remains of an integral loop that would have allowed for attachment to a corresponding hooked plate. There are three projecting trefoil knops positioned at the inner edge and the top and bottom edges, and which have circular perforations. The upper surface of the plate is decorated with an incised floral motif the comprises a central flower with circular petals pendant from branches to left and right. The central motif…
Created on: Wednesday 29th October 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Old Newton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-17ECB2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (17th century) cast copper alloy dress fastener. The plate is sub-oval with one straight edge. This edge would have had an integrally cast rectangular loop. The plate has three projecting knops, two of which are incomplete. The complete knop is circular, with an incomplete piercing for attachment; the remains of the other knops clearly had complete perforations. The upper surface of the plate is worn and corroded, with part of an incised floral design with surrounding circular and semi circular rings extant. The reverse is plain and undecorated. It is 29.53mm long, 24.22…
Created on: Monday 18th May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 11th December 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-332DF0
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy fastener or toggle of Post-Medieval date. It is 24.21mm in length, 19.09mm in width and 7.5mm thick. It weighs 7.61gm. It consists of a rounded body in the shape of a pointed oval, from the centre at one side of which extends a short, oval shaft which terminates with a pair of flat loops, positioned side by side. The pestle has a smooth, dark green patina. Examples on the PAS Database include SWYOR E137B1, and DENO-D53724 lists many others. There is some debate as to whether all these objects are cosmetic pestles of Iron Age/Roman date, although the quality of the metal…
Created on: Tuesday 6th July 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Akenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-9F3BC4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver gilt dress hook with a cast plate and an applied wire loop. The plate is triangular; the front face has an applied filigree border. In the centre is a raised boss decorated with a filigree trefoil and a central silver knop, there are three knops around, one in each corner of the plate. At each angle of the plate there is a trefoil delimited with filigree and each trefoil has a central knop. The reverse has been filed and a silver loop applied formed to make two small loops for sewing the fitting to cloth and a larger loop, presumably to act as a catch for a hook. Dim…
Created on: Monday 4th October 2010
Last updated: Thursday 12th May 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bury St Edmunds area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF1581
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy sword-belt fitting; sub-triangular plate in the form of a plant with central stem and 4 pairs of upward pointing leaves, each inlaid with alternate white and green enamel, pierced attachment lugs at each apex (RH missing); the base of the plate is bent over to form a hook for suspending a strap.
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2000
Last updated: Friday 3rd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WENHASTON WITH MELLS HAMLET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3982
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny silver catch-piece from a dress fastener. The plate is in the form of a shell, nicely modelled in three dimensions, and at the narrow apex of the shell is a transversely set oval loop. Around the loop there is engraved decoration which may represent stylised foliage. In both of the angles between the shell and the loop is a small circular sewing loop.
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HEMINGSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4105
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Catch-piece from a dress fastener made of a silvery metal, probably a lead/tin alloy with a high proportion of tin. The plate is oval, and decorated with three concentric ridges around the edge; the central ridge is beaded. Within the ridges is a complicated and apparently asymmetric relief scrolly ?foliage design. Each of the long sides has a small decorative projecting lug; one of the short sides has a much larger trefoil lug with two pellets and a perforation. The other short side has a rectangular loop in which to engage the matching hook, with a small circular perforated lug on e…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2000
Last updated: Monday 23rd June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK PARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4757
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hooked fastener, probably from clothing, consisting of a long plate with an iron rivet at one end and a broad hook at the other. The plate has relief decoration; the rivet end is rounded and decorated with a relief double rose, with the rivet in the centre. Below this is an asymmetric panel with hard-to-read decoration; the outline of the plate itself is asymmetric, but it does not appear to be broken. Just above the hook is a small panel of relief plant ornament. The hook has lost its tip.
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK NETTLESTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5587
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Oval dress-fastener made from copper alloy. It has five D-shaped pierced sewing lugs, two along each long edge and one at one short end. At the other short end is a broken-off hook 8 mm wide which appears to have curved up and out, rather than down and under as they usually do. The plate is decorated with engraved lines and parts of circles, forming a ?plant motif. The surface is corroded but it may originally have had a white-metal coating.
Created on: Friday 11th May 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FELIXSTOWE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5799
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Oval catchplate from a dress fastener. At one end of the oval plate is a long rounded pierced lug, with a small projection decorated with a relief scroll at either side forming a kind of fleur-de-lis shape. In the centre of each of the long sides of the oval is a small worn projection which may once have been a fleur-de-lis. At the other short end is a rectangular attachment loop with a small circular sewing loop at either side where it joins the oval. The oval plate itself has relief decoration of two raised borders with a beaded border in between, and within this a curvilinear desig…
Created on: Tuesday 5th June 2001
Last updated: Tuesday 15th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SHIMPLING', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6601
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible dress fastener made from copper-alloy wire wound into a knot. One end of the wire is tapered and forms a long projection with a right-angled corner, perhaps once a hook or loop. The other end is formed into a circle and then the end is interlaced around and through this loop. Perhaps early post-medieval.
Created on: Tuesday 21st August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6610
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver dress fastener with cast plate and applied wire loop. The plate is basically triangular, with a raised edge decorated with slight indentations to resemble beaded wire. In the centre of the triangle is a pellet, and there are six smaller pellets around, one in each corner and one in the centre of each side. Between the pellets, on the base of the plate, are three small circular indentations. At each corner is a trefoil which is formed the same way, with a raised border (this time not decorated), a central pellet and three circular indentations around it. On the reverse are filem…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 19th May 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Ipswich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-CC1CC6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Post Medieval copper alloy dress fastener, approximately half of a very corroded oval eyelet plate decorated with possible foliate design within pelleted border, remains of two of originally three projecting attachment-loops around outer edge, hook or eye missing, >20 x >23mm. Cf. similar type in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 16th January 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brantham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-2AFE35
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy post-medieval dress fastener. It is oval in shape, measuring 38.22mm in length and 29.7mm in width. One terminal has a rectangular suspension loop and the other tapers to a point with a circular rivet hole through its centre, similar small pointed oval protrusions with central rivet holes also project from the central of opposing edges of the fitting. The front face is decorated with a boarder of ring and dot motifs and within this a foliage like design consisting of three pairs of curvilinear grooves with central rows of ring and dot motifs along them. The bac…
Created on: Friday 18th June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 25th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Laxfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-6DA0A8
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy dress fastener dating to the post medieval period. The central area of the dress fastener is hexagonal in shape, with open work geometric design inside. There is a copper alloy loop which is not integral to the hexagonal front plate, this loop goes around the back of the plate, and carries on as a pin which comes out the other end of the hexagon. There is silver gilt still visable on some of the dress fastener.
Created on: Monday 21st June 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ipswich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-8D9352
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy decorative strap-fitting of ovate form with square looped end and three small loops or lugs, and with punched foliate ornament on the upper surface of the plate. The rectangular looped end is 13mm wide accommodating a rectangular hole, slightly irregular but at maximum measurement 13mm by 4mm in dimension. The overall length is 39mm, and the maximum width 31mm across the centre of the fitting including the two side lugs. There are three small lugs, one at the tip and one at each side, with holes of 2.5mm gauge. The object is plain on the back and is 1.5mm thick. The ornam…
Created on: Tuesday 10th August 2004
Last updated: Wednesday 18th July 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: PAS-B4E713
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver-gilt dress hook with cast plate and applied wire loop. The triangular plate has a raised edge with indentations. In the centre is a raised boss with six smaller bosses all around. Between the bosses are three circular indentations. At each angle of the backplate is a trefoil with plain raised border and central boss. The reverse has been filed. Applied silver loop formed to make two small loops for sewing the fitting to cloth and a larger catch for a hook. Dimensions: Length: 14.5mm.
Created on: Thursday 14th August 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ipswich area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-03DB16
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval Clothing fastener, tear-shaped hollow-backed body with double-collar pierced by copper alloy rivet at broad end retaining separate openwork trefoil link. The other end has a lobe with tiny terminal knop at point, pierced by iron rivet, sheet back plate missing, 22 x 50mm. Cf. Read (1996) nos.994-6. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 2nd December 2005
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Corton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10036
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy hooked dress fastener. It is oval in shape and measures 52mm in length and 22mm in width. One end of the oval plate terminates in a hook or possibly a loop, formed by bending a projecting strip of copper-alloy backwards until it meets the back of the oval plate. The plate itself is decorated on its front with an incised pattern within an grooved border; the pattern consists of curving crescentic leaves with groups of three incised circles at their tips. At the other end of the plate is a projecting rounded knop, with an iron rivet through its centre and a smaller knop o…
Created on: Friday 20th December 2002
Last updated: Friday 10th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FINNINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.