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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: YORYM-7033C4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2023 T506.
Description:
An incomplete silver-gilt dress fastener of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1500 – 1600. Read’s Class B, Type 3.
The main plate of the dress fitting is triangular with a twisted wire filigree border within which are three wire filigree circles. These would originally have housed raised bosses. Six large granules are present, set in the spaces between the circles and border.
To the reverse of the plate a circular sectioned piece of wire is present representing approximately half of the attachment sewing holes and the eye loop. Only …
Created on: Wednesday 31st May 2023
Last updated: Friday 3rd November 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Lillings Ambo', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: NMGW-E31CD0
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver mount, strap fitting or dress fastener of probable late Medieval to Post Medieval date.
The object consists of an integral flat plate broadly oval in plan, divided into two asymmetrical halves; the larger (14.2mm wide, 6.5mm long, 1.7mm thick) half is decorated on its obverse face by three lobes radiating from the centre of the half’s lower edge. The lobes’ rounded edges form the outer edge of the half and are defined by two incised grooves running to the outer edge. The lobes have concave faces, especially the central lobe. The smaller (11mm wide, 4.3mm…
Created on: Wednesday 24th May 2023
Last updated: Monday 13th November 2023
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This findspot is known as 'Blewbury CP', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: YORYM-3BCF3D
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE : 2022 T1078.
Description:
An incomplete silver-gilt dress fastener of Post-Medieval date, c.AD 1500 – 1600. Read’s Class B, Type 3.
The main plate of the dress fitting is triangular with a twisted wire filigree border within which are three raised bosses. Each boss is set witing a circular wire filigree border. A central large granule is present with six smaller granules set in the spaces between the bosses.
Integral trefoil projections are present to the outer edge of each point of the triangular plate. The lowest projection has lost two loops t…
Created on: Thursday 3rd November 2022
Last updated: Friday 6th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Bielby', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-A4B3DB
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete silver-gilt dress fastener of early Post-Medieval date (c. AD1500-1600) - a Read Class B, Type 3 triangular wire single blunt-hooked and eye clasp. The dress fastener consists of two pieces: a triangular shaped front sheet and a twisted wire eye which would originally have been attached to the rear of the triangular sheet.
The sheet is decorated with a double border of filigree wire. Pellets are present on two of the triangular points of the inner border (a third pellet would presumably have been present on the now broken off corner …
Created on: Monday 15th August 2022
Last updated: Monday 9th October 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Mashbury', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: BM-24C88E
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
This is a puzzling piece which has some similarity with 16th century dress fittings, but does not correspond precisely with examples so far recorded in that it is very thin and lightweight. It has a heart‑shaped stamp on the back which may possibly be a maker's mark, but is not one that we have been able to identify. It also has some affinity with traditional ornaments from Continental Europe.
Created on: Wednesday 4th May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 25th May 2022
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Record ID: BM-136139
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gilded silver dress fastener with a finely cast oval cartouche, with relief decoration of an elongated renaissance style female head with unusual headdress. This has an elaborate border with fleur-de-lis at the top and bottom, and a trefoil on both sides. The reverse displays file marks, a slightly sunken circular centre, and a broken double-strand wire hook attached by solder. A loop or hook is missing, where it projected from the side of the plate.
This item is not similar to other examples dated to the 16th or 17th century, and so with no comparable material…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd May 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd November 2022
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Record ID: ESS-7E82E3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete Read Class B Type 2 post-medieval silver-gilt eye-plate dress fastener dating to c. AD 1500-1600. The fastener consists of a circular plate of silver sheet decorated on the front with a central pellet within a circular filigree boarder, surrounded by a further seven filigree circles. A filigree border surrounds the central design. A single length of silver wire is soldered to the reverse, shaped to form two attachment loops and an eye. The gilding is worn but still visible in patches, especially on the filigree.
Dimensi…
Created on: Monday 31st January 2022
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wix', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: KENT-B2FB71
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A complete gilt cast silver dress fastener (eye) of post-medieval date (c.1550-1600).
Description: The body of the piece is sub-triangular with one sewing loop each side towards the bottom. A larger loop is formed at the top, in the centre, emerging from an integrally cast horizontal bar that extends further than the width of the body. This loop is where the hook would have been inserted, thus forming the eye part of the hook and eye clasp. The centre of the piece is decorated with a recessed cinquefoil with raised edges within a raised circular border. Smaller circles flank this…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
Last updated: Thursday 24th March 2022
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This findspot is known as 'Brookland', grid reference and parish protected.
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: SWYOR-430730
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver Medieval or Post Medieval possible dress fastener dating from AD 1350 - 1600. It is an eye- or catch-piece and may have had a matching hook piece when in use. The fastener is a flat plate of complex shape. One end is trilobed. The two outer lobes have an engrailed curved edge but are otherwise plain, depicted like two semi-circles placed tip to tip next to each other. In the centre is a smaller more rounded lobe, which projects further. It is decorated with raised pellets covering the front surface, and has a smooth edge. The other end of the mount is sub-rectangular and much…
Created on: Friday 31st July 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd December 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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Record ID: HAMP-144797
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast silver-gilt eye piece from a hook and eye dress fastener of early post-Medieval date (c 1500-1700). The object is moulded in the form of the bust of an angel or cherub with large feathery flanking wings or foliage sprays to either side. From the top of the head emerges a single large loop which would have received the matching hook. The left wing is largely missing. The surface is worn, but traces of gilding remain in the recesses either side of the head. There is a pair of smaller loops at the other end to attach to clothing.
Created on: Thursday 23rd April 2020
Last updated: Saturday 29th August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-AD538D
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Catch-piece or eye from a gilded silver post-medieval dress fastener. Circular, slightly convex body with filigree-style beaded wire border, decorated on the upper side with the filigree outline of a septfoil with concave petal-ends and central pellet. The reverse has a soldered-on eyelet made from flattened silver wire, with a larger eye projecting beyond the body to engage with the hook on the missing other half; and two smaller loops projecting to enable fixing to the strap or garment. The object appears to have pale gilding on the front.
Dimensions: 14.5mm long, …
Created on: Friday 24th January 2020
Last updated: Monday 14th March 2022
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Record ID: NMS-8B393A
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Silver pierced mount, apparently a catch-piece from a hook and eye pair. Cast in one piece, it is roughly in the form of an upper-case B, with the front edge straight and the rear edge with a double outcurve. The front edge has a squarish cut-out at each end, with the centre forming a narrow undecorated strip which tapers in thickness away from the rectangular-section edge towards a D-shaped central hole. Behind this, the rest of the object has two panels with reserved borders and relief decoration of obliquely set leaves within. Each leaf has a central double-groove ste…
Created on: Tuesday 17th December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 22nd April 2021
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Near Brandon', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-670939
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A complete silver Post Medieval hooked dress fastener. It is circular in shape with twisted silver wire filigree decoration on the outer face. This consists of a double wire border with four circles arranged in a quatrefoil in the middle. To the reverse is the remains of the hook which has broken off.
Dimensions: length: 7.7mm, width: 6.4mm, thickness: 1.6mm, weight: 0.16g
Discussion: LVPL-033E25 is an exact parallel on the database and was submitted for consideration as treasure (Treasure case tracking number: 2007T613).
SF-BBAB39 is a similar example which was also submitted for c…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd December 2019
Last updated: Thursday 13th April 2023
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: NMS-B24918
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Post-medieval blunt-hooked fastener made from a single piece of silver. The plate is a fleur-de-lis shape, with a large central lozengiform lobe and two much smaller back-to-back C-shaped lobes below. The lis sits above two quarter-circle projections, one to either side, with the curve above and the straight edge below. All of the edges of the plate have a filed sharp bevel, the tool marks from which survive.
The plate is not quite flat, but is V-shaped in cross-section, with a central longitudinal angle; on the reverse of this is a groove, suggesting that the plate …
Created on: Wednesday 25th September 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th October 2021
Spatial data recorded.
Record ID: OXON-234326
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast silver gilt looped portion of a post-medieval dress fastener.
The item is sub-triangular in shape and is formed of the head and wings of a cherub. Below the head is a large open D-shaped loop, into which the hook part of the garment fastener would slide. Above the head are two smaller sub-circular attachment loops, through which thread would pass to sew the fastener into a garment. In between these two smaller loops is a small knop on the top of the head. Although in an un-cleaned condition, much of the detail of the cherub's face and the feathers of the wings are cl…
Created on: Wednesday 18th September 2019
Last updated: Monday 6th March 2023
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Record ID: OXON-86C7C3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete silver scalloped mount, probably a strap fitting or dress fastener and dating to the early post-medieval period. The mount can be divided into two halves - the upper part is decorated with two scallop shells, with the rounded outer edges of the shells creating the outer edge of the mount with a slight groove dividing the shells. The lower half comprises a plain sloping sub-rectangular field with notched sides and a flat base. In the centre of this panel, slightly encroaching into the scallops, is a large circular perforation. On the reverse of the fitting are to…
Created on: Friday 12th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 11th October 2022
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chinnor', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: ESS-DCC23B
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Gilded silver eye from a hook-and-eye dress fastener. It appears to have been cast in one piece, in moulded relief.The item is sub-triangular in shape and is of a trifoliate openwork design. Below the sprouting elements is a large open loop, into which the hook part of the garment fastener would slide. Between each element are two smaller attachment loops, through which thread would pass to sew the fastener into a garment. The surface is gilded though some of this has worn off. The back of the fastener is flat, plain and undecorated.
Dimensions: length: 14.6mm, …
Created on: Thursday 4th July 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 5th December 2023
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Wix', grid reference and parish protected.
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