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Record ID: HAMP-9E6A09
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
An apparently complete copper alloy middle/ late Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) strap-end with a straight rather than curved short end. The strap-end is solid with a stepped attachment end and a thin plate of a different copper alloy attached to the stepped area with two rivets. It is rectangular in shape.
The strap end is decorated with a symmetrical, rather geometric design and Robert Webley suggests it is a Class E, Type 5 (Carolingian) (pers.comm. May 2015). A central stem is decorated to top and bottom with a pair of longitudinal grooves. At the stepped-end, to either side of the …
Created on: Monday 18th May 2015
Last updated: Saturday 23rd July 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Buriton', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: HAMP-593565
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An apparently late early-medieval copper alloy stirrup terminal dating to the 11th century, with old damage to one side. The terminal is zoomorphic in form and depicts an animal's head with bulging elongated pointed-oval eyes to either side at the centre and a prominent snout with pronounced lip to the front at the open end beneath. Above this (and below the eyes) is a triangular moulding. To either side of the snout a pair of grooves flanks the line of the base of the snout (also the base of the object). Too one side there is a very worn probable break between the eyes and the base o…
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Chitterne', grid reference and parish protected.
Record ID: HAMP-3CD74E
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late early-medieval (1000-1100) Anglo-Scandinavian copper alloy stirrup strap-mount of Williams Class A, Type 13, missing its apex loop (old break). Projecting backwards from the opposite end is a common right-angled flange with two iron rivets (c.4mm diameter) in situ on its underside.
The mount is lozenge-shaped with a central slightly irregular openwork lozenge. There are semi-circular lobes at the side apexes, each decorated with a raised circular boss. A further raised boss sits centrally, just below the openwork lozenge. On the reverse there is no decoration.
It …
Created on: Monday 12th January 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 18th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.
This findspot is known as 'Selborne', grid reference and parish protected.
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