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.

Record ID: OXON-EA9893
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Case 2019 T652. Description: An incomplete silver gilt dress fastener / dress hook of late medieval date. The dress fastener is broadly rectangular in form with a circular suspension loop above the moulded and openwork body decorated with scrolled floral designs. A blunted projection at the base of the fastener does not appear to be broken, neither do the two projections flanking it - this may not have had a hook, rather it was sewn to the clothing through the holes in the body and an opposing fitting hooked into the attachment loop. Dimensions: 17.8mm long, 16.5mm wide, 1.5m…
Created on: Wednesday 29th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bletchingdon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-2825F1
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
A cast silver-gilt eye piece from a hook and eye dress fastener of early Post-Medieval date (circa 1500-1700). There is a single large loop at one end to receive the hook and three smaller loops arranged in triangular formation around the plate for attachment to clothing. The object has a trapezoidal plate with cast decoration in imitation of ground-supported filigree and granules, incorporating a central granule within a triangular frame, flanked by two further granules at the eye loop. Along each long edge of this frame are projections moulded with floral loops similar to a fleur-de…
Created on: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 20th May 2020
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Record ID: SWYOR-088C69
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Calderdale
Workflow stage: Published
An early post-medieval copper alloy Class I hooked clasp; a chatelaine wound wire blunt-hook dating from AD 1500 - 1700. It fits into Read Class I (Class A, type 2). Either side of the double wire shank is is a separate wire which has an inward facing spiral. They are seized together and to the shank with a thinner gauge wire. The hook of the shank is bought together at the end to form a loop. The decoative end of the hook-piece is missing. The object is 36mm long, 25.9mm wide and 5.3mm thick. It weighs 5.22g. Reference: Brian Read Hooked-clasps and Eyes, page 142 reference 576.
Created on: Wednesday 24th April 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E02E1C
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete medieval or early post-medieval silver mount or dress fastener. One edge has a recessed flange terminating in an old break at one end. The rest of the object consists of a moulded design around a central hole or eye, now incomplete due to old breaks. The decoration appears to comprise two opposed S-shaped tendrils, each terminating in a trefoil. The reverse exhibits traces of parallel grooves indicating the object was cast in a cuttlefish bone mould. The reverse has a single integrally cast rivet with a burred-over end. Dimensions: Leng…
Created on: Friday 29th March 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 14th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C08C59
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: A complete silver-gilt eye-plate from a hook-and-eye dress fastener. The central body of the fastener is in the form of an inverted triangle. The body is surrounded by one circular sewing loop on each side of the basal apex, and a larger medial loop at the topposite side where the corresponding hook would have been inserted. The loops thus form a trefoil shape around the central sub-triangular body. The centre of the piece is decorated with what is probably the head of a cherub moulded in relief. The cheeks of the cherub are puffed out, and puffs of air lead from the mout…
Created on: Sunday 3rd March 2019
Last updated: Monday 27th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Reepham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-72A0FC
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A late Medieval to post medieval silver mount or strap fitting or dress fastener probably dating from AD 1400 - 1650. It is broadly D shaped in plan, with the curved edge being scalloped, and the straight edge having concave corners. In the centre of the curved convex edge is a projecting lobe, extending outwards and projecting forwards. It is decorated with two grooves running along it making it fluted. The area of the mount to each side of this lobe, has four rounded lobes along the scalloped edge on each side. There is a rectangular hole below at the inner end of the projectin…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd January 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Record ID: OXON-8A21F3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
TREASURE CASE 2018 T913. Description: A near-complete cast silver gilt dress fastener of early post-medieval (Tudor) date. The fastener is of small size, featuring a central raised boss in the form of a 'Tudor rose', with a trapezoidal loop above the rose for fastening to an item of dress. Below the rose, extending from the reverse of the object, is an incomplete silver hook which has been soldered on to the back plate of the fastener. The very tip of the hook is broken and missing. The hook has not been gilded, while gilding survives over the rest of the object. For comparison see Rea…
Created on: Thursday 18th October 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ascott-under-Wychwood', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: FAKL-689226
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy dress hook, Post Medieval (1600-1700), leaf shaped, cast in low relief with a central plant/flower motif, rectangular eye to accomodate the hook, three attachment loops. cf. Read 2008, 175-177. Length 35.6mm, Width 18.8mm, Thickness 1.8mm, Mass 3.81g.
Created on: Monday 10th September 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd April 2019
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Record ID: WAW-D266E3
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Published
The object is an incomplete silver-gilt 'eye' element from a two piece hooked clasp. The fitting is sub semi-circular in plan with the straight edge having two broken projections where a loop would have originally been positioned. The breaks are recent. On either side of the fastener there is a circular attachment hole which was used to sew the fitting onto an item of clothing. The outer face has a moulded design composed of a central forward facing bust, with slightly raised areas representing the hair and small depressions to represent the eyes and mouth. The bust is bordered by …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Last updated: Friday 20th December 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Nr Stratford-Upon-Avon', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-5BF876
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post-medieval gilded silver dress fastener cast in one piece. The plate has a central triangle outlined with a plain ridge and filled with a trefoil with a central pellet. At each corner of the triangle is a trefoil knop with a central pellet. Projecting from one edge is an integrally cast circular loop. On the reverse, opposite the loop, are traces of extra metal, perhaps solder from where a sewing loop was attached to the plate, either through composite construction or via a repair.  Dimensions: Extant length 15.1mm, wi…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-5B3F9A
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post medieval silver dress fastener. Less than half remains. It consists of an oval or circular openwork plate, with a complete trapezoidal loop projecting and flaring away from the plate. Less than a quarter of the way around the edge of the plate from the loop is a projecting rounded pierced lug or circular sewing loop, suggesting that the trapezoidal loop is a catchpiece or eye rather than an attachment loop. On the inner edge of the trapezoidal loop, a central rectangular-sectioned projection engraved with a series of transverse grooves runs towards the cen…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Monday 4th May 2020
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Record ID: NMS-01AA3C
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Small eye-piece from a post-medieval gilded silver dress fastener, of composite construction. The plate is an equilateral triangle, decorated with a raised border around a raised circle within which there is a quatrefoil of plain wire rings around a central pellet. The spandrels between the circle and triangle are filled with similar plain wire rings. Substantial remains of gilding remain on the front. Soldered to the back of the plate is a piece of wire, sub-rectangular in cross-section, bent into a U shape and with outward-facing circular loops formed on both ends.…
Created on: Thursday 30th November 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 3rd June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Wymondham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-EE381A
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Silver gilt post-medieval clothes fastener (eye clasp). The item is circular and partially damaged. There are two integral attachment loops and there would have been a third, though this is now missing. The larger of the two loops may have acted as the eyelet portion of the fastener, rather than as an attachment loop per se. The circular face of the clasp features raised moulded relief in the form of a human face. The reverse is flat and undecorated and bears a maker's mark, part of which is lost. The remaining mark reads 'T'. Dimensions: weight: 0.9g, length (including loops…
Created on: Thursday 24th August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 4th July 2019
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Record ID: FAKL-C12CB2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Rotherham
Workflow stage: Published
Post Medieval dress hook, c.1550-1670, Read Class A Type 10, cast copper alloy, Oval plate with three integrally cast loops, the eye by which the hook was attached to its counterpart is missing. The face of the hook bears an oval panel of foliate decoration, now obscured by corrosion. Around this is a band of small ovals. Length 34.4mm, Width 21.7mm, Thickness 2.2mm, Mass 6.17g.
Created on: Wednesday 17th May 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 18th July 2018
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Record ID: KENT-48B7D7
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A cast silver gilt 'looped' portion of a dress fastener, dating c.1500-1650. Description: The item is sub-triangular in shape and is formed from a chubby head with wings or vegetativeelements sprouting from the crown of the head. Above the head between the sprouting elements is a large open loop, into which the hook part of the garment fastener would slide. From the lower sides of head are two smaller attachment loops, through which thread would pass to sew the fastener into a garment. These are formed from acanthus or other vegetative loops sprouting from the side of the head an…
Created on: Thursday 11th May 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2020
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Record ID: ESS-043FC4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast silver gilt 'looped' portion of a dress fastener. The item is sub-triangular in shape and is formed of the head and wings of a cherub. Below the wings is a large open loop, into which the hook part of the garment fastener would slide. Above the head are two smaller attachment loops, through which thread would pass to sew the fastener into a garment. In between the these two smaller loops is a small knop on the top of the head. The item appears to have been cast in moulded relief, and the detailing of the eyes nose and mouth and the feathers on the wings of the cherub a…
Created on: Monday 8th May 2017
Last updated: Friday 14th April 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Overton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-0DFAF4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Incomplete post medieval silver dress fastener of Read’s (2008) Class B, Type 2. It consists of a plate with a twisted-wire filigree border running around the edge; the plate is circular, but with a curved cut-out forming part of the eye, making the plate almost crescentic.​​ Within the border are are three plain wire filigree trefoils alternating with two irregularly shaped loops of wire with bulbous, rounded ends. In the centre is a wire filigree sexfoil surrounding an irregular perforation, probably post-depositional damage rather than deliberate. On the back a p…
Created on: Wednesday 26th April 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 26th May 2020
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