TREASURE ANNU AL REPORT 2005/6 - Portable Antiquities Scheme

(VI) DREss FITTINGs
695. Wem area, shropshire: post-medieval silver-gilt
dress accessory (2005 T182)
Date: Late 15th–16th century
Discovery: Found by Mr B Williams while metaldetecting
in February or March 2005.
Description: A silver dress accessory, either an
ornamental dress fastening or a mount. Constructed in
three sections with integral hooks, soldered together
at the back of the central ornament. The central, top
element comprises a shaped Tudor rose, while the
middle element forms a vertical bar with an incurved
hook at one end. A zoomorphic head curves to reach
the rose motif at the other end. The back element has a
horizontal bar with an incurved hook at either end, one
hook now broken off and lost. The head, the rose and
the engraved lines bear traces of gilding. Height: 40mm.
Disposition: Shropshire County Museum Service.
B McLEOD
696. Whaplode, Lincolnshire: post-medieval
silver-gilt dress fitting (2006 T55)
Date: 16th century
Discovery: Found by Mr D Smith while metal-detecting
in April 2005.
Description: A dress-hook in the form of three
recurving hooks with tapering points, made from two
lengths of thick wire, soldered onto the back of a
circular boss. The boss has a pinked outline in the form
of a flower head, resembling a button daisy, apparently
cast. The front and back, including hooks themselves,
are gilded, and the backplate filed. Length: 36mm;
width: 41mm approx.
Discussion: This is a new type of Tudor dress-hook
to be recorded under the Treasure Act. Karen Parker
of Historic Resources Centre, Winchester Museums
Service, comments that it may correspond to a hook
worn on the cloak of St Margaret of Antioch in stained
glass windows from the Chapel of the Vyne, Hampshire,
which was built between 1518 and 1527 by Sir William
Sandys, Lord Chamberlain to Henry VIII (Wayment
1980, figs.VII-VIII). This type of hook is there shown
being worn in pairs by women to join the edges of a
cloak or mantle to the bodice. The two windows from
the Vyne showing dress-hooks of this type would
appear to record contemporary court fashion.
Disposition: The Collection, Lincoln.
D THORNTON
697. south Colchester, Essex: post-medieval
incomplete silver dress accessory (2005 T254)
Date: Probably 16th century
Discovery: Found by Mr R Norton while metaldetecting
in May 2005.
Description: An incomplete dress accessory, dropshaped
in plan with a thin rectangular bar at the curved
end. It is formed from two separate plates, joined with
a separate band in effect making the object hollow with
an aperture or split. The backplate is solid, the front
plate highly decorative, with a raised bevelled crescent
enclosing an openwork foliate design. At each tip of
the crescent is a silver rivet, which passes between the
plates and is visible on the reverse. The rectangular
bar was once joined to another, now missing, portion
of the object, possibly hinged as evidenced by two
rectangular scars on the back edge of the bar. Between
the two plates is a patch of woven textile, now brown
and discoloured. Length: 34.2mm; thickness: 5.6mm;
weight: 11.81g.
Disposition: Colchester and Ipswich Museums Service.
C McDONALD
698. Findon, West sussex: post-medieval silver dress
fitting (2005 T425)
Date: Probably 16th century
Discovery: Found by Mr F Kurzeja while metaldetecting
in September 2005.
Description: A double-sided cast item in the form
of a hanging flower head, possibly a fleur-de-lis, with
engraved detail. It is pierced on one side to denote a
looped-back petal and with a large integral attachment
loop at the top. Length: 17mm approx.
Discussion: The fact that it is double-sided with a
relatively large loop suggests that this object was
designed to be sewn to something, perhaps to clothing.
For a similar item from King’s Somborne, Hampshire,
see Treasure Annual Report 2002, no. 118, though this
was slightly larger and gilt. Perhaps this item was from
a set of identically cast fittings to be worn on sleeves
or other clothing.
Disposition: Worthing Museum & Art Gallery.
D THORNTON
699. bishopstone, Wiltshire: post-medieval silver
dress fitting (2006 T238)
Date: Probably 16th century
Discovery: Found by Mr L Duffield while metaldetecting
in 2003.
Description: An openwork silver fitting, with a
rectangular loop bound on one side by three ribs.
From these extends the main body, a stylised tree.
At its centre are four holes, the main stem of the tree
dividing in two and a branch on each side into quarters
around these. Dimensions: 22.7mm x 19.7mm;
weight: 2.33g.
Disposition: Salisbury & South Wiltshire Museum.
K HINDS
700. seething, Norfolk: post-medieval silver-gilt
eyelet (2005 T402)
Date: Late 16th or 17th century
Discovery: Found by Mr S Dunthorne while metaldetecting
in September 2005.
Description: A silver-gilt eyelet consisting of a cast
heart-shaped front plate with cable moulded edging
and annulet decoration, attached, probably by solder,
to a wire loop. The wire is turned to form two small
apertures through which the object would have been
attached to the garment and a large catch or eye to
receive a hook. For a similar example see Ipswich area,
in Treasure Annual Report 2001, no. 151. Length: 12mm;
weight: 0.74g.
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finder.
A ROGERSON
701. Thetford area, Norfolk: post-medieval
silver-gilt eyelet (2006 T316)
Date: 16th–17th century
Discovery: Found by Mr P Hewett while metaldetecting
in May 2006.
Description: A complete dress fitting with a cast plate
and applied wire loop. The plate consists of a circular
ring, which is decorated with six evenly spaced flowers
with smaller tendrils of foliage between these. In the
centre of the ring is a solid heart shape, the front face
of which is slightly rounded. The reverse of the plate
has been filed flat. The applied silver loop on the back
face has two small loops for sewing the fitting to cloth
and a larger loop, which would have acted as a catch
for a hook. Length: 20.8mm; weight: 1.99g.
Disposition: Disclaimed, returned to finder.
F MINTER
702. hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire:
16th-century silver disc-shaped eyelet (2006 T584)
pAs ID: bh-0174E0
Found by Mr H Cross while metal-detecting in October
2006; disclaimed, returned to finder.
D THORNTON
703. Ashwellthorpe, Norfolk: 16th-century silver
dress fitting fragment with curling fronds
(2006 T143) pAs ID: Nms-3A7676
Found by Mr A Womack while metal-detecting in
February 2006; disclaimed, returned to finder.
S J ASHLEY
704. Dereham area, Norfolk: 16th-century silver
sub-square eyelet (2005 T448) pAs ID: Nms-23b518
Found by Mr V Butler while metal-detecting in
September 2005; disclaimed, returned to finder.
S J ASHLEY
705. horningtoft, Norfolk: 16th-century silver
lozenge-shaped openwork dress fitting (2006 T144)
pAs ID: Nms-3A8074
Found by Mr G Linton while metal-detecting in
February 2006; disclaimed, returned to finder.
D THORNTON
706. Narford, Norfolk: 16th-century silver-gilt
circular notched dress fitting (2006 T363)
pAs ID: Nms-4A54C7
Found by Mr J Coggles while metal-detecting in June
2006; disclaimed, returned to finder.
S J ASHLEY
707. montacute, somerset: 16th-century silver
lozenge-shaped dress accessory or clasp
(2005 T101) pAs ID: somDoR-EA0908
Found by Mr J Gaylard while metal-detecting in
November or December 2004; disclaimed, returned
to finder.
B McLEOD
708. bexhill, East sussex: 16th-century silver-gilt
domed filigree mount (2006 T304)
pAs ID: suss-D8Ab03
Found by Mr L Smyth while metal-detecting in June
2006; disclaimed, returned to finder.
D THORNTON
709. Cottam, East Riding of yorkshire: 16th-century
silver-gilt hemispherical dress fitting (2006 T352)
pAs ID: pAs-8b1092
Found by Mr K Umpleby while metal-detecting in 2006;
disclaimed, returned to finder.
D THORNTON
710. hinxton, Cambridgeshire: 16th–17th-century
silver filigree eyelet fragment (2006 T391)
pAs ID: pAs-8C6F02
Found by Mr S Fordham while metal-detecting in July
2006; disclaimed, returned to finder.
D THORNTON
711. hitcham, suffolk: 16th–17th-century silver-gilt
trefoil-shaped eyelet (2006 T517)
pAs ID: sF-361C13
Found by Mr G Fisk while metal-detecting in
September 2006; disclaimed, returned to finder.
F MINTER
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