Record ID: NMS-7AE3B5
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval gilded silver dress fastener. Openwork plate consisting of four circular apertures around a central heart with scrolls to either side, a narrow transverse rib forming a straight edge above the heart and two pierced circular attachment lugs projecting from the lower edge below the heart. In the centre of the upper straight side is a broken, ungilded scar where a missing element, probably a pierced lug forming the eye, has broken off. Gilding on the reverse survives only within the stamped maker's mark, R. Post-medieval eye plates are less commonly found than the dres…
Created on: Monday 20th June 2016
Last updated: Thursday 6th January 2022
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Record ID: NMS-EDAEB2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
SF4. Context 1046. Silver-gilt dress fastener. Length 13mm. Width 8mm. Weight 0.6g. Dress fastener consisting of a single piece of circular sectioned wire formed into a spiral 'figure of eight' which would have been sewn onto a garment, ending in a hook with a rounded end. The hook is applied to an incomplete decorative plate, upon which there is partly visible some filigree work. This type of dress hook is classified as a Read (2008) Class B Type 2, 3 or 4 (unknown which type as plate is incomplete; nos. 597-605). Early post-medieval. Read, B. 2008. Hooked-Cl…
Created on: Tuesday 8th March 2016
Last updated: Thursday 17th December 2020
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Record ID: NMS-3A8074
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of composite quadrangular gilded silver dress fitting, made in two parts. A central cast element, with a large central perforation and a smaller perforation in one corner for attachment to clothing, is decorated with separate elaborately cast filigree design of symmetrical curling foliage fronds and pellets (some now missing) which fill the field around the large perforation. A concave-sided lozenge-shaped backplate of silver sheet folded over at edges. Gilded front and back. 21 x 22mm. Of similar feel and date to elaborate dress fittings in Gaimster et al. (2002). 16th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 12th August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-3A7676
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a composite silver dress fitting, elaborate cast trefoil with pair of curling fronds and large central perforation into which is inserted a rolled sheet collar with longitudinal seam, projects 5mm from reverse. Of similar feel and date to elaborate dress fittings in Gaimster et al. (2002). 13 x 13mm. A good comparison, though reported as a belt mount, is found in Treasure Annual Report 2003 (2003T154) no. 284 from Hedon, Yorks, now recorded on the PAS database as YORYM-B33A28. 16th or 17th century.
Created on: Tuesday 8th January 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 12th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashwellthorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-23B518
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete silver eye mount for clothing. Sub-square openwork back-plate comprising disc with four trefoil projections. Face with claw setting holding separate silver disc with random pecked decoration, set within a spiral of twisted wire, four evenly-spaced rolls of twisted wire in cross-shaped arrangement and outer border of twisted wire. Each foil on each projecting trefoil is bordered with twisted wire, with the larger central one being pierced. A separate wire loop is soldered to the reverse at one edge. 18 x 20mm. Related to composite dress hooks in Gaimster et al, Antiq. J. (20…
Created on: Monday 7th January 2008
Last updated: Wednesday 12th August 2020
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Record ID: NMS-2E7826
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver, gilded dress fastener hook or eye plate. Sub-triangular plate with one long, straight edge which projects slightly beyond the shorter sides at either end, and four projecting pierced lugs for attachment. The plate is slightly concave on the reverse and convex on the front. Decoration consists of a line of pellets and twisted wire along the straight edge, a twisted wire annulet around each piercing, and a double strand of twisted wire forming a heart around three smaller hearts with a larger pellet at their conjoined points in the centre of the plate. A pair …
Created on: Monday 7th October 2013
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North West Norfolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-89B182
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded silver fragment probably of a dress fastener. Flat-sectioned plate with two small projecting pierced lugs for attachment with a small pellet between, decorated in low relief with a fleur-de-lis within a triangular border with a pellet at the end of a scroll to either side below the pierced lugs. The lower edge is broken, probably across a loop. Surviving length 11.5mm. Width 11mm. Thickness 1.5mm. Weight 1.0g. For broadly similar examples see SUSS-3C97C2 and SOM-FDD898. 16th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-79E837
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval gilded silver hook from a composite hook-and-eye set. Circular plate with a border of twisted wire, a central circle of plain wire with four evenly spaced ovals of plain wire linking the central circle and edge. A hook formed from a piece of wire bent double with the ends bent into loops to forms eyes is soldered to the reverse. Diameter of plate 10mm. Length 11mm. Read (2008, 159, no.598 and 599) Class B, Type 2. See ESS-FC3336 for a similar example. 16th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st October 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
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Record ID: NMS-29BDBB
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver, gilded dress fastener eye-plate. Cast in low relief in the form of a stylised cherub's face with trefoil sprigs of probable foliage above and below, the larger upper sprigs framing the base of the circular eye, the lower smaller sprigs framing a an attachment loop to either side of the cherub. Flat, plain reverse. Gilding survives on the front face only. Length 14mm. Width 10mm. Thickness 2.5mm. Weight 0.8g. 16th century. For a very similar example see SOM-616C6A.
Created on: Friday 11th September 2015
Last updated: Thursday 2nd July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Witchingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-70B362
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Medieval or post-medieval silver gilt mount or eyelet. Circular, with the impression of the cuttlefish mould, and two integral rivets on the reverse. The front face has a raised transverse panel with convex edges leaving a crescentric flange to either side of the mount. Two thirds of the raised panel are decorated with a narrow central concave moulding flanked by a wider moulding to either side, before an off-centre rectangular hole through a concave face. Diameter 16mm. Maximum thickness excluding rivets 3.5mm. Rivets to hold a thickness of c. 2mm. Weight 3.6g. 15th - 16th century. …
Created on: Friday 6th January 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 21st April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Tuddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-D26CB2
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver clothes fastener eye plate. A circular silver sheet with twisted silver wire soldered to the reverse bent in the same plane as the disc to form an eye, the ends bent outwards into circles to form two attachment loops. There is a central hollow dome with eight apertures in the sides on the front of the disc topped with a pellet surrounded by a circle of twisted silver wire. The base of the dome is surrounded by another circle of twisted silver wire, a circle of eleven filigree circles and finally with twisted silver wire forming a border at the edge of the plate. The area inside…
Created on: Wednesday 25th November 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wendling', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-57F66D
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver eye-plate dress fastener consisting of a triangular plate with three twisted wire annulets within a twisted wire border which follows the edge of the plate, with a single length of silver wire soldered to the reverse bent and protruding from beneath the plate to form two attachment loops and an eye. Gilding survives on the front of the wire and plate but is missing from the centre of the three annulets suggesting a possible lost pellet. There are slight traces of gilding on the reverse and the tips of two corners of the plate are missing. Length 13mm. Width 10mm. …
Created on: Tuesday 2nd September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
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Record ID: NMS-D017C8
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy dress fastener eye plate. Rectangular 'eye' with raised cabled bar at each short end and loop projecting from the lower edge, cusped and noted plate with two rivet holes filled with iron corrosion and a central decorative circular aperture, terminating in a straight edge with a cabled rib. Length 45mm. Width including loop 22mm. For a similar example see Read (2008, 209, no.755? Circa 16th -17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 6th July 2016
Last updated: Wednesday 6th July 2016
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Record ID: NMS-E5EBC4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver dress fastener eye plate cast in the form of a fan of feathers with an opposed angled lines with curled ends either side of an arrow at the base of the fan. The feathers are alternately plain and cast with a central rib and angled lines. The plate is pierced twice to form attachment holes, with the third attachment loop projecting from the top of the fan and an oval eye projecting from the base. Read (2008) Class A, Type 7, see 175, no.662 for a hooked example depicting feathers. Length 25mm. Width 15m. Thickness 1.5mm.Weight 1.0g. 17th century.
Created on: Wednesday 15th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Brigstock', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-7B0FBE
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Silver dress fastener eye plate of Read (2008) Class B. Crescent-shaped plate decorated with filigree, consisting of a twisted wire border around an abstract design, probably two flowers with long stamens in a pot. There are very slight traces of possible inlay in at least one of the twisted wire cells forming the design. A single piece of wire is bent to form two attachment loops and the eye and soldered to the reverse. Slight traces of gilding survive. Length 16mm Width 13mm. Weight 0.6g. Broadly similar to NMS-D26CB2 (Wendling, Norfolk, HER42701), LVPL-859AC5 and KENT-3F6696. 1500 …
Created on: Friday 10th April 2015
Last updated: Monday 21st December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Mundham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-243882
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Post-medieval silver eyelet dress fastener. Cast on low relief in the form of a bearded face with two curved triangular projections to either side, perhaps representing long hair. There are two integrally cast circular loops, one to either side of the chin and a larger loop above the head. The reverse is flat and there is no trace of gilding. Measuring 13 x 13mm, 2mm thick and weighing 1.1g. Circa 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 31st October 2013
Last updated: Friday 11th September 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cantley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-201722
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late medieval or post-medieval silver, gilded dress fastener eye-plate. The plate is in the form of an elaborate trefoil, the side foils at right-angles to the central foil, each with a median rib and trefoil terminal, with one straight edge with a very narrow flange. There are two separately applied off-centre pellets. The plate is pierced twice behind the straight edge, with a pierced lobe at the terminal of the vertical foil for attachment. On the reverse is a separate soldered loop now broken in line with the straight edge but which would originally have extended beyond it to rece…
Created on: Tuesday 13th May 2014
Last updated: Friday 30th May 2014
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Record ID: NMS-169324
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper alloy dress fastener. Hoop missing, oval plate with a male bust facing right cast in low relief, hook broken. For a very similar example see Read (2008, 93, no. 334). Width 23mm. Survivng length 23mm. A3.
Created on: Friday 19th October 2012
Last updated: Friday 19th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-D247A4
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post medieval copper alloy dress fastener eye plate. Oval plate with (broken) rectangular loop, three attachment knops pierced and filled with iron corrosion and two decorative knops around the edge. The plate is decorated with possibly foliate motif within an oval border. Very similar to Read's Class A, Type 8 (2008, 175, no.663 and 664). Length 36mm. Width 21.5mm. c. 1550 - 1700. A4.
Created on: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 16th October 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Deopham', grid reference and parish protected.