Record ID: CORN-0516A6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Stamped copper alloy clothes fastener with three trefoil knops, one on each side of the fastener, and the third at the opposite end to the attachment loop, with its rectangular aperture for the eyelet. The upper face is decorated with a central stem and flower head, with foliage either side, in the form of a large leaf. This is the eyelet half of a hook-and-eyelet dress fastener. Bailey (2004) illustrates a similar example on page 100, Fig.2.42, which is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 12th June 2008
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HESH-1394A8
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Published
Silver trefoil-shaped dress hook, triangular backplate with three hemispherical bosses, central knop and smaller knops between bosses. Gilded. The back has a recurving hook soldered on, tip broken, and bar attachment. Approx 2.3 cm long. Compare very similar dress hook with maker-s mark from Kingstone area, Herefordshire (TAR 2005-6, no. 654, 2006 T128).
Created on: Thursday 12th June 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 15th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'bridgnorth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-8CC7D6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy hook-piece from a post-medieval dress fastener (17th century AD). The majority of the artefact survives, including the main, shallowly convex, oval plate. At one narrow end a wide hook emerges (W.: 5.9mm), curving upwards slightly before a break. At the other end there is a small projecting circular loop. There are two further circular loops on each side of the oval, just above the hook. The small holes may have been used for sewing the object to an item of dress (Geake 2001, 42). On the upper surface of the plate there are raised curvilinear ridges whi…
Created on: Wednesday 18th June 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-B29CB1
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy incomplete dress fastener; part of a seventeenth century hook and eye clasp. The operational part of the piece is missing so it is not clear whether it is the hook or the catch piece. The fastener is a plate of metal which is currently oval, but which may originally have been more trefoil shaped. There is a broken sewing loop at one end, and the other end of the plate is damaged, so the hook or catch, and the other two sewing loops are missing. The reverse is plain and the whole plate is bent. The front is decorated with a swirling fleur like design which is typical of t…
Created on: Monday 14th July 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 4th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nottinghamshire', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-731342
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (17th century) cast copper alloy dress fastener. The plate is oval with one flattened edge with an integrally cast rectangular loop, which has been bent slightly. The plate has three projecting sub-triangular knobs, which are pierced for attachment. The upper surface of the plate is decorated with an engraved floral motif comprised of three tear-dropped petals extending out from the looped end. The surrounding area of the place is decorated with a border of small circles. The fastener is corroded, obscuring some of the details of the design. The reverse is plain and unde…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd July 2008
Last updated: Friday 31st March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Tey CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-753183
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap fitting or dress fastener. The object consists of an oval plate with a rectangular bent projection for attachment. There are loops on both sides of the plate and one on the point, opposite the bent loop. The plate itself has been decoratively stamped and features a floral design. The surface is mid greenish-brown in colour. The reverse is undecorated. This fitting probably dates to the 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd July 2008
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Yapham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-9BD3B3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete cast copper alloy strap fitting or dress fastener. The object consists of an oval plate with a rectangular bent projection for attachment (now broken). There are loops on both sides of the bent projection and one on the point, on the opposite end. The plate itself has been decoratively stamped and features a floral design. The surface is mid greenish-brown in colour. The reverse is undecorated. This fitting probably dates to the 17th - 18th century.
Created on: Friday 25th July 2008
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Yapham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-F26196
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Tudor dress hook. The item is almost heart shaped in outline. There is a double curved top and tapering sides which widen slightly before turning inwards forming two shoulders, terminating with a narrow projection. Shown centre in image.
Created on: Tuesday 29th July 2008
Last updated: Friday 14th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Islip', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-184BB6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval dress hook. The is one rosette on either side of a rectangular openwork body. The body also has three cojoined ropework forms. There is some moulding at the junction between the hook and the body. Length 32mm, width 20mm, thickness 1.6mm. weight 2.68g.
Created on: Thursday 31st July 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Islip', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BERK-56C857
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval (16th century) copper alloy clothes fastener with rectangular attachment frame. The body is circular with a cast heraldic rose in the centre. The hook is now broken. Dimensions: Length 34.4mm; width 14.2mm; weight 2.56g
Created on: Wednesday 27th August 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wantage', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-697D94
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy dress accessory being the looped fitting from a hooked tag of probable post medieval date (1600-1700). The plate of the hooked tag is broadly oval in plan with a series of projecting looped knops (some of which have been pierced) positioned evenly around the central plate. An integral rectangular loop (which has broken) is present at one end. This loop (female) would have taken the opposite hook (male) fitting and acted as a closing device on a cloak or dress. The fitting measures 39.3mm in length, 21.9mm in width, is a maximum of 1.9mm thick, and weighs 6 grams. T…
Created on: Tuesday 9th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stockton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7E0907
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval double-hooked dress fastener, part of one integral hook missing. The plate with elaborately shaped sides and edges is decorated in counter-relief with scrolls and foliar motifs around a frame enclosing an inscription, MARIA, probably a reference to the Virgin. Plate 45.5 x 25.5mm. Overall length estimated at 66mm. Thickness 1.8mm. This is much more elaborate than fasteners found in Norwich (Norwich Households fig.9), and more akin to an example from Amsterdam (Baart et al. 1977 cat. no.160. 16th century
Created on: Wednesday 10th September 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Langley with Hardley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-F990B3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Published
Silver dress fitting, round, cast in one plane with large projecting loop and two smaller loops, one broken. At centre of the circle on the front is a male bust, wearing a cap, tunic and heavy chain in the manner of English court dress of c 1530-40, possibly intended to represent Henry VIII. Worn, gilded. 16th Century.
Created on: Tuesday 16th September 2008
Last updated: Friday 18th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cliffe and Cliffe Woods', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DENO-3B22C3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval cast copper alloy dress hook, 16-17th century, similar in style to Read (2008; pg 172, 646) early post medieval blunt-hooked and eye clasp Class A, Type 2. Rectangular loop is broken off. Sub-triangular in shape with three circular attachment loops, one at each corner. Running longitudinally down the centre of the obverse are 8 short transverse raised ridges with foliate decoration around. Traces of tinning/silvering on the obverse & possibly the reverse. Weight 4.7mm, length 33.9mm and width 21.6mm-7.3mm. Similar to WILT-BA0526.
Created on: Friday 23rd March 2007
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-EDB4F4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete sheet copper alloy clasp fastener, pressed with a pattern of foliage. The eye for the hook is broken and open and the side attachments are also incomplete, but the two loops, one on each side of the eye, are still intact. These loops would have allowed the fastener to be stitched onto the item of clothing. Bailey (2004) illustrates a very similar example with the same pattern of foliage on page 100, Fig.2.43, which is dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Sunday 1st April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BUC-E2F672
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Eye section of a two-part post medieval copper-alloy dress fastener. The plate is egg shaped with a broad rounded outer end narrowing to a rounded base by the loop. It is shallowly convex. The reverse is plain and recessed. At the top of the outer end is a circular attachment loop. A further pair are located one either side at the base. At the base there is a flat section formed of bifurcating strips with straight ends, from the outer corners of these extends the sides rectangular loop which ends in a straight but slightly damaged outer edge. A close parallel can be found illustrat…
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2007
Last updated: Friday 9th February 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Oakley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-E3FC95
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Loop part of a two part cast copper alloy dress fastener of Post-Medieval, seventeenth century date (AD 1600 - AD 1700). The fastener is flat and piriform (drop shaped) in plan with an integral loop at the wider end; the loop is broken on the outer edge and the inner edge curves down on each side to meet at a centre point, flanking this point the border on the main plate curls inwards, continuing the curves. At the widest point there are integral perforated knops, one each side, which would have been used to sew the clasp onto clothing, one is broken. The end opposite the loop is brok…
Created on: Thursday 12th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Willingdon & Jevington', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-E07F07
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
One half of a copper-alloy hasp and clasp fastener of suggested 17th century AD date (G. Bailey; 2004; pp. 100). No exact parallel could be found for this piece, which represents the plate into which the hooked half of the device would have fitted. The plate takes the form of an elongated scallop shell, with a series of moulded ridges in its upper surface. A sub-rectangular frame extends from the top of the object and either side of this is a perforated lug. A third perforated lug extends from the centre point of the bottom edge. These three holes would have served as a means of attac…
Created on: Tuesday 24th April 2007
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Clothall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-CB55B1
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Post Medieval dress fastening. This component of a dress fastening is the ‘eye’ and not the ‘hook’. The body of the dress fastening is a sub-oval in plan with a straight terminal where originally a rectangular loop would have protruded, but is now missing. At the lower tip and either side there are three integral lugs with circular perforations, the lower one is incomplete. The outer surface is decorated with stamped annulets. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The surface of the dress hook has a matte grey coloured patina. The dress hook…
Created on: Monday 19th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 12th July 2010
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: ESS-F12A68
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2010 T255 Silver-gilt cast dress fitting in the form of a cherub's head with flanking wings. There are three integral loops around the face. The first is a larger loop and located below the cherubs chin. On either side of this loop, below the wings are flanking knops. The other two smaller loops are on either side of the top of the head. In between these is another knop. The reverse is flat and chased. The loops may indicate that is was designed to be sewn onto clothing and possible used with a hook element to make a hook and eye fastening. In terms of depiction a si…
Created on: Wednesday 21st April 2010
Last updated: Wednesday 29th February 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Colchester District', grid reference and parish protected.