Record ID: DOR-8E0685
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy possible swivel fitting. It comprises an oval frame, wide and double-ridged at the top, tapering to the underside where there is the stub of an integral rivet or projection.  Date: Possibly Iron Age Width: 10.00 mm Thickness: 4.78 mm Weight: 6.51 g  
Created on: Monday 6th November 2023
Last updated: Sunday 31st December 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-7E4346
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy Late Iron Age to Early Roman strap fitting, strap-union or belt-link dating to 300 BC - AD 100. From the rear the object has a solid 8-shaped design, with a bar on either side around which leather straps would have been attached. The 8-shape is comprised of two conjoined plano-convex discs of 19.0mm diameter, although through being compressed together they each measure 17.9mm in length from the join to the outer edge. At the front there is another central disc positioned above the waist of the 8 and compressed into it. Each of the three discs is decorated at the front wi…
Created on: Thursday 29th August 2019
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Piddletrenthide CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-E90529
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy ring. A probable strap junction ring of uncertain date. The ring is oval with a circular aperture. Its frame is flat and rectangular in cross section. At one side the ring is narrowed and distorded through wear. Date: Iron Age to Medieval - c. 800 BC - AD 1300 Diameter: 19.71mm Thickness: 3.34mm Weight: 3.61g.
Created on: Wednesday 30th May 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 1st August 2018
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Record ID: DOR-E9EE18
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A flattened, circular ring of copper alloy. Possibly a bead or a strap junction ring. The ring is oval with a worn sub-circular aperture. Its frame is flat and sub-rectangular in cross section. At one side the ring is narrowed and distorded through wear. Date: Possibly Iron Age c. 800 BC - AD 43 Diameter: 23.23 mm Width: 5.94 mm Thickness: 5.40 mm Weight: 9.87 g
Created on: Friday 18th May 2018
Last updated: Saturday 10th November 2018
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Record ID: PUBLIC-70B793
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete late Iron Age to early Roman copper-alloy strap union of Taylor and Brailsford's (1985, 247) Type 1. The fitting comprises two circular loops connected together. The loops are plano-convex with flat reverses and off centre perforations set towards the point at which they join and recessed on the front. To each side of each loop is the broken off ends of the terminals of a straight bar which would have run between them to accommodate the straps. It is corroded, with a slight green patina, weighs 11.2g and measures 30mm in length, 22.5mm in width. Each circular perfo…
Created on: Thursday 30th May 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 8th June 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'East Dorset', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-4EF391
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An annular object, 35mm in diameter with a central aperture 12.5mm wide, and with an extension, 9mm long, at one point on the circumference. The extension has iron projecting from one end while the opposite has a hemispherical projection which appears slightly pink.
Created on: Monday 24th July 2006
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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