Record ID: KENT-A758CD
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy strap end of medieval date, c.AD 1270 - 1400. Description: The strap-end is broken into two pieces and represents the front of the composite clasp. It comprises a trapezoidal box plate, open at one end and closed at the other, with an elaborately decorated circular panel and zoomorphic clasp terminal with transverse piercing. The box plate is decorated on the upper surface with incised parallel lines; narrowing towards the decorative ring where it expands into a stepped terminal. The ring is beaded with two draped figures facing each other without in it…
Created on: Thursday 28th April 2022
Last updated: Thursday 18th August 2022
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Record ID: KENT-2A929F
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet metal three piece copper-alloy Medieval strap end dating from the second half of the 14th century. Description: The strap-end is formed from two sheets of copper alloy sandwiching a cast copper-alloy spacer and all held together by three rivets, two at the attachment end and one at lower end just prior to the terminal knop. The pace between the upper rivets contains desicated organic material possibly remains of a leather belt. The bottom rivet is broken leaving the object fragile and the plates springing open.The plates are sub rectangular in plan, tapering slightly towa…
Created on: Tuesday 8th February 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 9th February 2022
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Record ID: KENT-F8F85B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy, late medieval - post medieval 'lyre-shaped' strap end dating c. AD.1350-1450. Description: The strap-end has chape formed from a hollow one-piece cast 'box' terminal with two rivet holes in the top corners, which retain the iron rivets albeit in a heavily corroded state. The hollow box terminali s sub-rectangular with a flat front and back. The front has been decorated with although the motifs are unclear due to wear and corrosion. There is a slightly bevelled edge at the bottom of the box chape from which projects a two thin worn tabs, likely the oute…
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 28th January 2022
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Record ID: KENT-F784CA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet white metal coated copper-alloy Medieval strap end dating from the second half of the 14th century. Description: The strap-end is formed from two sheets of copper alloy, held together by two rivets, one at the attachment end and one at lower end just prior to the terminal knop. The sheets sandwich a third piece of copper-alloy cast forked spacer. The plates are sub rectangular in plan, tapering slightly towards the closed end which is pointed and terminates in a small knop. The attachment end is finished leaving it with a slightly diagonal edge. There is no decoration sa…
Created on: Thursday 25th November 2021
Last updated: Friday 28th January 2022
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Record ID: KENT-CA23D3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet white metal coated copper-alloy Medieval strap end dating from the second half of the 14th century. Description: The strap-end is formed from two sheets of copper alloy, held together by two rivets, one at the attachment end and one at lower end just prior to the terminal knop. The sheets sandwich a third piece of copper-alloy a cast forked spacer. The plates are sub rectangular in plan, tapering slightly towards the closed end which is pointed and terminates in a small knop. The attachment is finished leaving it slightly concave. There is no decoration save the white met…
Created on: Wednesday 30th June 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 30th June 2021
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Record ID: KENT-AE2318
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper-alloy strap end or buckle, with incised decoration. Probably dating from c 1375-1500. Description: The object is formed from a rectangular sheet of copper-alloy folded widthways and secured by two rivets (both survive). One side is undecorated, the other has a blackletter G set within a panel of horizontal short lines. Framing this on each side is a border of two lines, the outer is straight and the other wavy. Measurements: 25 mm long and 22 mm wide, 3mm at thickest and 3.8 grams in weight. Discussion: This objects fits a group of o…
Created on: Thursday 29th April 2021
Last updated: Thursday 8th June 2023
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Record ID: KENT-D2C986
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
A sheet metal three piece copper-alloy Medieval strap end dating from the second half of the 14th century. Description: The strap-end is formed from two sheets of copper alloy sandwiching a cast copper-alloy spacer and all held together by two rivets, one at the attachment end and one at lower end just prior to the terminal knop. The bottom rivet is broken leaving the object fragile. The plates are sub rectangular in plan, tapering slightly towards the closed end which is pointed and terminates in a small collared knop. The attachment is finished leaving it slightly concave. The …
Created on: Monday 2nd March 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 12th May 2020
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Record ID: KENT-5CAB0B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy strap end of medieval date, c.AD 1270 - 1400. Description: The strap-end is broken into two pieces and represents the front of the composite clasp. It comprises a trapezoidal box plate, open at one end and closed at the other, with an elaborately decorated circular panel and zoomorphic clasp terminal with transverse piercing. The box plate is decorated on the upper surface with incised parallel lines; narrowing towards the decorative ring where it expands into a stepped terminal. The ring is beaded with two draped figures facing each other without in it. …
Created on: Thursday 3rd October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 12th May 2020
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Record ID: KENT-482B73
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Medway
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A sheet white metal coated copper-alloy Medieval strap end dating from the second half of the 14th century. Description: The strap-end is formed from two sheets of copper alloy, held together by two rivets, one at the attachment end and one at lower end just prior to the terminal knop. The sheets sandwich a third piece of copper-alloy which maybe a third sheet or a spacer to assist with its attachment to its strap. The plates are sub rectangular in plan, tapering slightly towards the closed end which is pointed and terminates in a small knop. The attachment is finished leaving it s…
Created on: Tuesday 9th July 2019
Last updated: Thursday 11th July 2019
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Record ID: KENT-BBDDF5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete decorated two piece sheet copper-alloy Medieval strap-end dated c.1350-1450 AD. Description: The plate is sub-rectangular in plan, tapering towards the terminal end which finishes in a blunt point. The top plate has a rivet at each end riveting it to the back plate. There is a decorative border formed from two incised lines with two parralel short panels of decoration near the terminal. The strap-end has a good dark green patina leaving it a dark green in colour. Dimensions: Length 27.86mm, width 16mm, thickness 4.38mm and weight 3.72g.
Created on: Wednesday 27th March 2019
Last updated: Friday 29th March 2019
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Record ID: KENT-D581FE
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy, late medieval - post medieval 'lyre-shaped' strap end dating c. AD.1350-1450. Description: The strap-end has chape formed from a hollow one-piece cast 'box' with two rivet holes in the top corners, which retain the traces of iron rivets. The hollow end is sub-rectangular with a flat front and back although it has been slightly warped. The front has been decorated with two black-letter capitals although they are indistinct due to wear and corrosion. There is a slightly raised ridge at the bottom of the box chape from which projects a long thin worn tab, l…
Created on: Wednesday 21st February 2018
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2018
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Record ID: KENT-63C737
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap-end dating to the late medieval period, c. 1400-1500, of crescentic type. Description: The strap end would originally have consisted of two separate plates riveted together, a cast front plate and a sheet backplate, though only the cast front plate was recovered to record here. It consists of a crescent-shaped main body, incomplete, with one arm mostly missing. One rivet hole with a corroded iron rivet remains clear on the other arm, but the end of this is also missing. Another rivet hole with copper-alloy rivet is present at the centre of the …
Created on: Wednesday 10th January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 28th February 2018
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Record ID: KENT-942509
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy hollow chape for a strap-end or book fitting (also known as a 'box chape'), of later medieval date c. AD 1300-1450. Description: The chape is formed from a hollow one piece cast 'box' with two rivet holes in the top corners. The hollow end is sub-rectangular with a flat front and back although it has been slightly warped and one rivet hole is torn. The front has been decorated with two black-letter capitals although they are indistinct perhaps a 'P(O/G)', within a border. The chape is motteld red-green in colour. Measurements: 16.8mm long, 23.12mm wide, 7.14mm thi…
Created on: Monday 25th September 2017
Last updated: Friday 23rd February 2018
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Record ID: KENT-02EC97
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast incomplete copper-alloy strap-end box-chape of late Medieval dating (Late 14th to 15th Century AD). Description: The strap-end consists of a rectangular body with foliate or zoomorphic fringing on along the top edge, made of symmetrical opposing element creating large circular openwork cells between the two. With two rivet holes possibly creating the eyes of the zoomorphic element. The main body has two simple relief cast transverse lines. It has a wasted knop with a scroll to either side, extending from the base of the box. The reverse is undecorated although there is a cas…
Created on: Friday 25th August 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 12th December 2018
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Record ID: KENT-2AEFBE
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap-end dating to the late of the Medieval period, c. 1400-1500, of unusual type. Description: The strap end would originally have consisted of two separate 'plates' riveted together, though only one half was recovered to record here. The plate consists of a crescent-shaped main body with 4 rivet holes, 1 each near the tips of each crescent and on either side of the rounded base of the body. None of the rivets survive. This crescent is decorated with a series of incised motifs possibly vegetative in subject. From the lower edge of the main body o…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th January 2020
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Record ID: KENT-2947B7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy Y-shaped spacer for a Medieval composite strap end, dating to the period 1100-1500. Description: The frame is Y-shaped, with long thin upper arms rectangular in cross-section. At the rectangular meeting point of the arms and the lower section there is a rivet which remains in situ. The bottom section consists of a ribbed projection that narrows along its length. The spacer is Dark green in colour. Measurements: 27.39mm long, 9.16mm wide, 3.12mm thick and 1.88g in weight. Discussion: For complete examples see Egan and Pritchard (1993), p144, nos.681-682, but …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd March 2017
Last updated: Friday 31st March 2017
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Record ID: KENT-4B2EB4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a three or two piece copper-alloy sheet Medieval strap-end dating from the second half of the 14th century (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 143). Discussion: The strap-end remains as a single sheet of the original two sheets of copper-alloy which may have additionally sandwiched a third sheet spacer held together by rivets, one at the attachment end and one at the knop end prior to the knop. The sheet is almost complete with a break across the rivet hole at the attachment end. The plate is sub-rectangular in plan, tapering near the terminal end which is pointed and termi…
Created on: Friday 3rd February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 8th February 2017
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Record ID: KENT-F7BAB7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete sheet copper-alloy strap-end or mount of medieval or post medieval date c.1150AD-1700AD. Description: The object survives as a sheet of copper-alloy roughly rectangular in shape but slightly narrower and rounded at the bottom end. There is a rivet at the centre top end of the plate with an iron rivet remaining as a point of rust. The rivet has clearly been pushed through the plate rather than through a drilled hole. One side of the plate is very slightly concave. The object is a light turquoise with patches dark green colour. Measurements: 33.57mm long, 15.35mm wid…
Created on: Monday 1st August 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
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Record ID: KENT-3CC241
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a three or two piece copper-alloy Medieval strap-end dating from the second half of the 14th century (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 143). Discussion: The strap-end remains as a single sheet the original two sheets of copper-alloy and a third sheet spacer construction originally all held together by rivets, one at the attachment end and one at the knop end prior to the knop. The sheet is almost complete with a gentle diagonal break at the attachment. The plate is sub-rectangular in plan, tapering near the terminal end which is pointed and terminates in a small knop which…
Created on: Friday 17th June 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
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Record ID: KENT-3C4667
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of three piece copper-alloy Medieval strap end dating from the second half of the 14th century (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 143). Description: It is made of two sheets of copper-alloy and a spacer originally held together by rivets, one at the attachment end and one at the knop end prior to the knop, however the strap end has broken prior to the terminal end rivet. The break is uneven with one of the outer sheets very slightly longer than the other sheets and bent slightly over the top of the break. The break is however patinated suggested an antique break. The outer pla…
Created on: Friday 17th June 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
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