Record ID: NMS-929606
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-Medieval tinned dress fastener, pear-shaped plate decorated with and engraved flower within a border of small stamped annulets, broad flat-sectioned hook projects from base, attachment-loop on both sides (one broken) and at apex. 28 (reconstructed) x 34mm. cf. broadly similar types in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 17th December 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-34B940
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Unusual incomplete Post-Medieval dress fastener, broken, corroded and bent oval blunt-hooked plate decorated with a counter-relief male bust with mane-like hair and collared jacket, broken flat-sectioned hook at side and remains of three projecting attachment-loops around outer edge, >46 x (restored) 34mm. cf. similar types in Read (1995) nos.771-2. 16th-17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 6th January 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 24th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Surlingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-DAA923
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Early Post-Medieval copper alloy hooked tag with champlevé enamelling and two broken attachment-knops. It measures 29.43x(max)20.50x2.08mm and weighs 4.15g. The hooked tag has a foliate form, consisting of a central segmented stem with three oblique ovoids to either side and being widest just above the hook - which is 6.45mm wide. The enamel, most of which remains, is a pale green in colour. Two attachment knops (one complete and one broken) sit either side of the bottom pair of ovoids at the widest point. The internal diameter of the complete knop is 3.22mm. The third att…
Created on: Monday 26th January 2009
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2019
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Record ID: KENT-2CA955
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
50BC-200AD. Iron Age, copper alloy, cast, broken and corroded 'toggle' or 'Button/loop' type dress fastener for fastening a cloak or similar clothing. Length 17.4mm, Width 11.6mm, Thickness 8.7mm, Weight 3.4g. Baluster type, minus both terminals and the circular or rectangular attachment loop. Broken and very corroded condition although some small fragments of a dark green patina. Ref. Buttons and Fasteners 500BC-AD1840, Gordon Bailey, Greenlight Publishing 2004.
Created on: Wednesday 11th February 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SUR-E633F6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A hooked dress fastener; the hook is missing. The fastener, which is now bent, has a circular openwork plate at the centre of which is a heraldic rose. The loop is rectangular.
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SWYOR-E62D86
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy clasp piece from a hook and eye fastener dating from the post medieval period. The plate is oval with an acorn shaped terminal knop. There are four broken sewing holes round the edge and a rectangular loop at the end. The front of the plate is decorated with white and light blue enamel and a central metal fleur dr lis or acorn. The fastener is similar to other hook and eye clasps from the Early post medieval period, but the use of blue and white enamel is unusual and probably suggests a late 16th or 17th century date. The fastener is 37.16mm long, 22.2mm wide and 1.3mm …
Created on: Wednesday 4th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 18th June 2020
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Record ID: SUR-FF4E61
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late or post medieval hooked dress fastener. The body of the fastener has openwork knot decoration in the form of a trefoil.
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2009
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2017
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Record ID: SUR-79FD82
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A silver gilt dress-hook comprising a rectangular body with seven projecting knops and a central rectangular recess probably intended to take a separate fitting (as on the similar Hadleigh, Suffolk dress-hook 2003 T209). The hook, which now projects sideways, appears to have been soldered onto the back. The attachment bar on the back is missing.
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 17th May 2011
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Record ID: WILT-E7E0C7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete copper alloy and champlevé enamel Early Post-Medieval hooked tag (eye section) of Read's Class A, Type 9 with four attachment-knops and an ornamental knop. It is missing the end of the plate with (probably) an ornamental knop flanked by two attachments knops. It measures 28.24x25.59x1.56mm and weighs 4.40g. The plate depicts a human head, facing, surrounded by pellets and annulets in moulded relief. The surviving champlevé enamel is blue and white. 16th/ 17th century. Cf Read p.178 no.678.
Created on: Monday 16th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2017
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Record ID: KENT-23B3B2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper-alloy dress fastener. The head is circular in section and oval is plan with pointed terminals; it is 18.6mm wide and 7.5mm thick in the centre. From the centre of the head projects a narrow stem which is oval in section. The stem terminates in two circular loops, one on each side of the stem. It is 22.1mm long, 18.5mm wide, 7.3mm thick and weighs 6.5 grams. Several similar examples have been recorded on the database, including WMID-905A14, SWYOR-131B66, HAMP-S40E35 and KENT-7B0A04.
Created on: Thursday 19th March 2009
Last updated: Monday 22nd June 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-694038
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy hooked section from a hook-and-eyelet dress-fastener with circular openwork in a bifid terminal. One of these holes still has its iron rivet intact, so both of them would have been used to attach the hook to the textile. The collar below the terminal has two side-knops. There is an incised cross running between the rivet holes to the end of the remains of the hook, now missing, and crossing from knop to knop. Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 42, No.357 which is dated to the 17th century. Read (2008) illustrates a similar example on p…
Created on: Sunday 22nd March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-6F0401
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cast copper alloy one-piece clothes hook, missing the hook, but with attachment loop at the other end so that it could be sewn onto clothes to be used as hook and eye clasp instead of a button. There are two apertures of openwork below the rectangular attachment loop. The moulded decoration consists of a spray of three small flowers whose stalks radiate from a pellet near the loop. Read (2008) illustrates a similar example on page 100, No.375 which is dated to the early Post-medieval period and is recorded as Class E, Type 3. Bailey (2004) illustrates a similar example…
Created on: Monday 23rd March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-6F1BD3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy belt hook, circular in plan, with three longitudinal moulded facets, and two moulded transverse collars at the junctures of the hook and body and of the body and the attachment hole, now missing, at the opposite end from the hook. Read (1988) illustrates similar examples on page 147, Nos.994 & 995, which are dated to the 17th century.
Created on: Monday 23rd March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CORN-788067
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy dress hook fastener with moulded and openwork decoration in the form of a central fleuret surrounded by four kidney-shaped apertures with elongated angular knops. Two of these are now missing along with the hook that would have attached to the collar at that end. The opposite end has a trapezoidal aperture to act as loop so that it could have been sewn onto the garment. There is a pellet either side of the two longitudinal voided ridges at the base of this loop. Read (2008) illustrates a similar example on page 103, No.398, which is dated to the early Post-medieval…
Created on: Monday 23rd March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: NCL-B8A7A5
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy strap fitting of the early Post-Medieval period, Read early Post-Medieval class A type 9, dating c. d 1500-1700. The fitting is incomplete, but would have had a drop-shaped body with projections for attachments. There is a rectangular projection with a rectangular perforation at the broad end of the body, and a circular projection with circular perforation set on the sides of the widest part of the body. The body has integral decoration in relief of a classical motif with enamel in the cells around it - red to either side and white to the top and bottom. T…
Created on: Thursday 26th March 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bone Field', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LVPL-CBF4A0
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cheshire East
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy post medieval clothes fastener. It is sub-oval in shape with three loops, one at either side and one at the end. The opposite end to the loop is broken where the clasp would have been. The object would have been one of a pair, the other side of which would have a hasp, which the clasp would have fitted arround. It is decorated with a leaf pattern and has a dark green patina. The reverse is plain.
Created on: Friday 27th March 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Acton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-21B051
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy trefoil-shaped hooked clothes fastener of composite construction; one of the three domes which comprises the obect is missing. The hollow back of the fastener is filled with lead or a lead alloy. The fastener appears to comprise six separate components. The two surviving domes appear to be the heads of separate rivets, one of which survives and which is bent at right-angles at the back of the fastener. Each dome is decorated with a ring of punched pits around a central pit. The central rivet appears to retain the Y-shaped plate component which divides the three domes. Ea…
Created on: Tuesday 31st March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: BH-DDE703
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy blunt-hooked and eye clasp of early post-Medieval date. For a range of similar examples, see Read 2008: 164-182. The plate is roughly lozengiform, the top and bottom points being truncated. There are a total of five (of six original) peripheral lobes, two located at the bottom and a pair (one missing) at each of the two middle points. At each of the two top corners is a perforated loop; a third loop projects from the bottom edge of the artefact. Extending from the upper side is a rectangular hanger. The upper surface of the plate bears moulded decoration, with a central…
Created on: Tuesday 21st April 2009
Last updated: Friday 27th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Walkern', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-F16412
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A 17th century hooked clothes fastener comprising an oval plate with three projecting loops for attachment to cloth or leather. The face of the fastener is decorated with punched circles and lines suggestive of foliate shapes.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd April 2009
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd October 2013
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Record ID: NMS-1C2644
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
White-metal coated copper alloy eye-plate from a blunt-hooked dress fastener with moulded decoration. Read (2008) Class A Type 2, and apparently as no. 648 (found in East Devon), although in very much better condition. 36.5mm x 22.5mm. 17th century.
Created on: Friday 24th April 2009
Last updated: Thursday 3rd November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Quidenham', grid reference and parish protected.