Record ID: DOR-E7BB52
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy strap fitting probably part of a composite sword belt mount. It comprises a flat geometric plate with an incomplete rearward hook at one end. At the opposite end to the hook, the plate is a rectangular transverse bar with a scalloped upper edge and an indentation at either side. From this extends a lozengiform section of the plate and this then extends into a scallop-shell shaped section. From the end of this lower section, the object constricts into a rectangular cross-sectioned rearward hook which tapers slightly to the break. There are two circular attachmen…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2024
Last updated: Sunday 11th February 2024
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Record ID: DOR-217B7D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap fitting. A belt mount with two integral attachment spikes at the rear, set on the long axis with one bent downwards and the other broken leaving just a stub. The mount has a central oval plate with a projection top and bottom. Both projections are in the form of a fleur-de-lys and possibly display some red enamel decoration. The oval plate is undecorated. The rear is flat and undecorated. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700 Dimensions: 34.83 mm x 19.20 mm x 2.41 mm Weight: 6.25 g Reference: Brian Read ( Identifying Metal Artefac…
Created on: Monday 13th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
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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
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Record ID: DOR-81386F
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy hooked mount. The mount has a trefoil openwork plate with a circular attachment hole in the top foil. There are circular holes through the side foils with a lozengiform aperture below. Below the centre of the plate is another trefoil-shaped bar that narrows into the hook. A second rivet hole is located within this section. The hook is intact and retains its copper alloy ring. The front of the mount  and the ring retain areas of white metal coating.  Reference: Read, B, 2008, Hooked Clasps & Eyes, p. 232, No. 828 Date: Post-Medi…
Created on: Monday 18th September 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 18th October 2023
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Record ID: DOR-EE969D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post Medieval cast copper alloy strap slide. The plate is flat and of lobed and waisted form. The ends are bi-lobate. The centre of the slide is decorated with longitudinal line of short, incised, angled lines. Both ends are decorated with a group of three stamped circles. The reverse is flat with two integrally cast long, pointed lugs both of which are hooked inwards at the ends. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1550 - 1700 Length: 16.6 mm Width: 28.14 mm Thickness: 1.93 mm Weight: 3.63 g
Created on: Monday 11th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 23rd October 2023
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Record ID: DOR-71D546
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy strap mount. The front of the mount is decorated with a moulded design of an heraldic triple rose of three bands of five petals around a large central pellet. There are pointed lugs projecting around the edge from between the petals. There is a break at the edge on one side. At the rear is the stub of a single, central attachment rivet or spike. Date: Late Medieval to Post Medieval - c. 1450 - 1600 Dimensions: 19.57 mm x 3.86 mm Weight: 2.56 g Very similar mounts are recorded in database records DOR-001A9D & SUR-9E2FA6, and relat…
Created on: Wednesday 31st May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2023
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Record ID: DOR-710F1B
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap mount. An openwork Baroque style mount. The mount is sub-angular with a narrow projecting knop at the top and a semi-circular projection at the bottom. It is symmetrical along the vertical axis with two sub-circular apertures arranged vertically on either side (one in-filled with corrosion and soil). The front is decorated with an elaborate moulded design with curlicues around the apertures and a cherub face at the centre. The rear is flat and undecorated. At there rear there are the stubs of two integral rivets arranged on the vertical axis. Date: Post M…
Created on: Wednesday 31st May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 4th July 2023
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Record ID: DOR-21D5A0
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An complete cast copper alloy fitting from a sword belt of Post Medieval date.  A symmetrical curvilinear copper alloy plate with pointed crescent shaped sides. There are two integral hanging loops projecting from the lower edge.  The front is decorated with a moulded, gilded cherub face and wings on the upper edge at the centre. The curving "wings" of the plate extend out to the sides and are decorated with a moulded foliate design of leaves and curling tendrils, arranged symmetrically on a mid line extending below the cherub moul…
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Saturday 3rd February 2024
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Record ID: DOR-F1257A
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post Medieval copper-alloy strap fitting for a sword belt, dating to c. AD 1600 - 1650. This example is composed of the plate, which tapers from the top to a narrowed, rearward hook.  The upper edge of the plate is bi-lobed and there is a transverse moulded collar above the hook. The plate is slightly plano-convex, flat at the rear. Both faces are undecorated. There are two iron rivets in the centre of the object which have corroded. Dimensions: 31.53 mm x 13.10 mm x 5.94 mm Weight: 2.29 g Reference: Margeson, S.1993. Norwich Households: The Medieval and Pos…
Created on: Saturday 25th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 6th April 2023
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Record ID: WILT-5FC9B3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy bar mount and pendent loop, dating to c AD 1350 - 1400. The bar mount is a sheet of metal, pierced at one end for attachment to a strap, rivet missing, and folded back about 2/3rds down its length apparently into a simple hook, recessed in width but with slightly expanded end. The ring is D shaped in section.  Dimensions: mount 12.8mm in length; 3.9mm in width; ring 10.6mm in diameter; 2mm thick; 1.4mm wide; whole item 0.92g in weight Ref: Egan and Pritchard (1991: 221) Fig. 138.
Created on: Monday 6th March 2023
Last updated: Thursday 2nd November 2023
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Record ID: DOR-1E64B3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  copper alloy strap mount. An openwork decorative mount in the form of a stylised fleur de lis. There are two circular rivet holes, one at either end of the long axis of the central element, both retaining incomplete circular cross sectioned rivets. The plate comprises a long, solid central element with a rounded top, a moulded transverse collar towards the base and a flared and rounded base with three raised pellets decorating it. It is flanked by two loops with sub-circular apertures. The details of the decoration are moulded.The front is slightly…
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th March 2023
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Record ID: DOR-1E30CB
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  copper alloy strap mount. An openwork decorative mount in the form of a stylised fleur de lis. There are two integral rivets at the rear of the plate set in from the ends of the central element of the lis. The plate comprises a long, solid central element with a rounded top and a transverse collar at the base, flanked by two loops with D-shaped apertures. Reference: Maslin, S 2021 Decorative copper-alloy leather mounts and strap-slides of the 16th to 18th centuries, FRG Datasheet 55, p. 4 - 5 & fig. 5 Date: Early Post Medieval - 1500 - 1600 Dimensions: 19.03 mm x …
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 29th March 2023
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Record ID: DOR-8F809C
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  copper alloy strap slide (Maslin's  Lobed and Waisted type). It comprises lobed and waisted plate with  two integral spikes at the rear. The lobes are rounded and elongated. Across the centre between them is a transverse double ridge. The front is convex and the rear is flat. The integral spikes project from the rear of the plate at the outer edges. They are rectangular in cross section and curve inwards at the ends. Reference: Maslin, S 2021 Decorative copper-alloy leather mounts and strap-slides of the 16th to 18th centuries, FRG Datasheet 55, page 2, …
Created on: Friday 24th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th March 2023
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Record ID: DOR-8F247E
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A  copper alloy strap slide (Maslin's Openwork type). It comprises an openwork plate with the stubs of two integral spikes at the rear. The plate  has an openwork quatrefoil central element. At the ends of two of the lobes (opposite each other) are pointed flat projections behind which are the stubs of the two integral spikes. Reference: Maslin, S 2021 Decorative copper-alloy leather mounts and strap-slides of the 16th to 18th centuries, FRG Datasheet 55, page 3 Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700 Dimensions: 31.88 mm x 17.66 mm x 6.28 mm Weight: 1.77 g
Created on: Friday 24th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th March 2023
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Record ID: DEV-37FBB9
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper-alloy bar mount (strap-fitting), dating to c. AD 1350-1400. The mount is small, with a large central lobe flanked by smaller terminal lobes, one at each end. The central lobe is sub-circular, hollow backed and decorated with six transversely engraved lines with fine longitudinal lines creating a cross-hatch patten in some areas. The flanking terminal lobes are much smaller, and squared off at their ends. Each has a circular hole; both contain a circular-sectioned, copper-alloy rivet which on the reverse has broken away leaving small spikes. Measurements: 18 mm i…
Created on: Wednesday 8th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2023
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Record ID: DOR-C0227E
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy fitting from a sword belt, the fitting consists of an incomplete foliate plate with two hooks attached and two fragments of foliate plates attached to the hooks. The plate was originally symmetrical. It has one trifoliate terminal remaining. There are two small attachment holes remaining, one at the centre and one through the trifoliate terminal. The hooked plates are attached through two rounded suspension loops in the lower edge of the foliate plate.The suspension loops have large, circular apertures. The hooked ends terminate in globular ends. Bo…
Created on: Saturday 21st January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: DOR-BD33F3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap slide or mount with two integral attachment spikes. Openwork or complex type (Maslin S 2021, page 3) The mount has a bi-lobed, openwork plate giving it a shape similar to a double-looped buckle frame. The lobes are oval with pointed, expanded, outer ends and crescent-shaped apertures. The outer ends are decorated with moulded curlicues. The outer edges of the lobes are scalloped. Dividing the lobes is an integral, waisted plate with trefoil ends. At the rear are two, large integral attachment spikes, each set behind the outer edge…
Created on: Saturday 21st January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 7th February 2023
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Record ID: DOR-930CBE
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy strap mount in the form of a domed, moulded fleuret. The fleuret is octofoil, with a raised pellet at the centre with a ring of seven rounded petals or foils set around it. Around this at the the outer edge are eight larger foils or petals creating a scalloped edge. The rear face has the remains of a pair of integral attachment spikes, one of which has been bent to one side, the other of which is broken off leaving only a stub. The both have a sub-angular cross section at the base and are flattened into a thin, rectangular cross section&nb…
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
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Record ID: DOR-926760
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A large copper alloy hooked fitting, possibly from a sword belt. The fitting comprises a central rectangular plate with hollow-backed sub-circular plate at one end and a long forward hook at the other. The central plate is flat and has slightly angled corners. The sub-circular plate terminal is hollowed at the rear with a large, off-centre integral rivet projecting from it. The rivet is circular in cross section and has a splayed, asymmetrical head. At the other end of the rear of the rectangular plate is a second similar integral rivet, also off centre. From this end extends a na…
Created on: Thursday 19th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st February 2023
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Record ID: DOR-52A2A1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap or belt mount. The sexfoil mount is sub-circular in shape. It is convex on the front and is decorated with six lines radiating from an off-centre, circular attachment hole. The reverse is convex. There are traces of gilding on the front face.  Date: Medieval - c. 1300 - 1500 Dimensions: 17.71 mm x 17.05 mm x 2.07 mm Weight: 1.86 g
Created on: Monday 16th January 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st January 2023
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