Record ID: ESS-526092
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval cast copper alloy dress fitting. The Main body of the fitting is triangular in plan, with sub-triangular knops at each of the corners. The knops have circular perforations for attachment. The shorter edge of the fitting has a rectangular attachment loop. The upper surface is decorated with incised lines and punches arranged in a foliate design. The reverse is plain and undecorated. The fitting is 38.62mm long, 26.66mm wide, 2.22mm thick and weighs 3.61 grams. It is dark red-brown in colour, with patches of green copper corrosion.
Created on: Monday 10th March 2008
Last updated: Tuesday 1st January 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Of Colchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-B988A7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval blunt-hooked dress fastener. The shield-shaped plate (corner missing) is decorated with a V-shaped notch between two concave cut-outs at the top (opposite the hook) and with an elaborate stamped rose. There are copper alloy rivets in the centre near the top and one at the base securing the remains of the short separate hooked back-plate. The hook curls forward and over to touch the front of the plate. 22 x 35mm. 17th-century dress fasteners, made in a variety of shapes, were used in pairs, one hooked and one with an eye (cf. Read 1995 nos.768-772).
Created on: Tuesday 8th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Postwick', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-89C436
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy dress fastener of Post-Medieval date, probably seventeenth century (AD 1600 – AD 1700). Length: 40.2mm; width: 25.5mm and 1.7mm thick. Weight: 4.37g. The fastener is largely sub-oval in plan and has an integral hook which is incomplete due to an old transverse break. At the end opposite the hook, and also at each side, there is a small integral perforated knop. Each perforation, used for attachment, is circular and has a diameter of 2.6mm, one of the side knop is broken due to an old break. The front of the plate is decorated with a moulded floriate…
Created on: Wednesday 30th April 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Steyning', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-AE86F2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy button, toggle or clothes fastener. The object is undecorated. The head is in the form of a flattened sphere. There is a slight indentation on one side. The shank is looped; this appears to be integral with the body of the object. The metal is mid greyish-green and slightly pitted.
Created on: Friday 2nd May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Fridaythorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-B433D3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy wound wire hooked fastener (16th century). This hooked tag is constructed from lengths of wire. Two lengths of thicker grade wire have been shaped to from the double hooks at each end. A thinner grade wire has been wrapped around the body of the hooks to hold their shape. This thinner wire has been hammered flat once in place. This thinner wire has also been used to form a loop at each end. Similar wound wire hooks and other accessories are illustrated and discussed in Egan & Forsyth (1997:227). These hooks have been dated to the 16th century. Dimens…
Created on: Friday 2nd May 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bermondsey', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-C10876
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy clothes hook from the post-Medieval period. The object consists of a central decorated face that is circular in plan. The face has scalloped edges and a concave indentation with a raised circular protrusion in its centre. A fastener bar that is roughly rectangular in plan is attached to one edge of the face and a hook protrudes from the opposite edge.
Created on: Thursday 15th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-17AD71
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy wire dress fastener of probable post-medieval date. The incomplete fastener measures 43.9mm by 18.7mm by 2.6mm and weighs 3.9g. The fastener is made up from several pieces of wire, the ends of which have been twisted into spirals and which are held together with a central plate of narrow wire which has been wound around the other elements and then squashed flat. Two of the spirals have broken off. At one end there is a wire hook, which is folded back towards the plate. Adjacent to this there are two projecting wires which are curved rather than spiralled. A similarly co…
Created on: Monday 19th May 2008
Last updated: Friday 1st November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Taunton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NCL-BDEA11
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy fastener from the Post Medieval period. The central tag of the fastener is roughly circular in plan and has two perforations on each half of the circle, for a total of four. The fastener’s hook and loop are broken but the shaft of the hook and the base of the central loop’s arms are present.
Created on: Tuesday 27th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NCL-C0ADC6
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy dress fastener (hook piece) of the early post-Medieval period. The fastener is incomplete at the head, though the hook remains largely intact. The head would have been openwork circles, but there is a break almost immediately at the top of the hook shaft.
Created on: Tuesday 27th May 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-66A417
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a middle Saxon hooked fastener with a pair of attachment holes. The plate alone survives and has a central voided cross with a pellet in each angle, which contains a band of rectangular shapes. Similar decoration fills the field. The fastener has a white metal coating.
Created on: Wednesday 4th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LON-7E5A24
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper alloy wire-work hook (c. 16th century). The hook is constructed from five lengths of wire bound together in the centre by finer gauge wire. The ends of the five wire lengths are decoratively splayed and then coiled. The two outer wire-lengths on the opposing ends are also splayed and coiled and the central three stands are bent over and flattened to form a hook. Two of the ends are curled over to form loops and the third is cut and fed through the other two loops to secure it. The shape of the artefact is slightly distorted. A similar hook was described as a bel…
Created on: Thursday 5th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'City of London', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-94EBC5
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy dress fastener catch-piece of post-medieval date. The fastener, which is in the shape of an acorn, measures 33.5mm by 21.4mm by 3.3mm and weighs 4.3g. It has a convex front and concave back. At the cup end there is a square loop and adjacent to this there are two smaller round attachment loops, one of which is broken. There is a further small broken attachment loop at the opposite end.
Created on: Friday 6th June 2008
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Martock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-E442D2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy dress fastener of Post-Medieval date, probably seventeenth century (AD 1600 - AD 1700). Length: 25.1mm; width: 18.7mm and 1.6mm thick. Weight: 1.74g. The fastener is largely sub-oval in plan and would have had an integral hook or loop which is now lost due to an old transverse break. At the end opposite the break, and also at each side, there are the remains of small integral perforated knops; now mostly lost. The front of the plate is decorated with a moulded floriate motif within a border consisting of small pellets. The rear face is flat and plain. T…
Created on: Tuesday 10th June 2008
Last updated: Monday 23rd July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nutfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: CORN-02EF63
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete 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 edge of the attachment loop. The rest of the loop, or eyelet, with its rectangular aperture, is missing. 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: Wednesday 11th June 2008
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2017
Spatial data recorded.

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: 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: SOM-8D2618
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy dress fastener or clasp of late medieval to early post-medieval date. The fastener measures 19.8mm by 14.6mm by 2.4mm and weighs 1.2g. It consists of a lozenge-shaped plate which is riveted to an incomplete double-ended hook. The front is decorated with several linears made up from small incised holes: a central vertical with three diagonals on each side. Similar double-hooked fasteners can be seen in 'Norwich Households' (1993, pp. 18-9, no. 81) and in 'Meols: The Archaeology of the North Wirral Coast' (2008, pp. 216 and 218, no. 3038).
Created on: Wednesday 18th June 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 9th November 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Curry Rivel', grid reference and parish protected.

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.