Record ID: DOR-F47BEC
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy strap fitting dating to the 9th-11th Century. The object is made of sheet metal with an incised interlace decoration within a double framing band, gilding is retained in some grooves. The reverse is undecorated. Date: Early medieval. Dimensions: 17.17mm x 14.08mm x .95mm. Weight: 0.72g.
Created on: Tuesday 24th October 2017
Last updated: Monday 15th January 2018
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Record ID: SOM-9E34D4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
2017 T957: Submitted for valuation Description: An Early Medieval cast gilded silver mount, probably a strap-slide, decorated in the Winchester Style. The mount is sub-hexagonal in plan, with a flat reverse. The design on the front is moulded in high relief, comprising a symmetrical pair of addorsed birds looking backwards. Their wings curve downwards into the mouth of an inverted animal mask, before passing out of its ears to terminate in a volute at each lower corner of the mount. A trilobed acanthus frond issues from the animal mask's mouth, filling the space between the bir…
Created on: Friday 20th October 2017
Last updated: Friday 13th September 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Manston CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-CCDF2D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap fitting. A belt mount with two incomplete integral attachment spikes at the rear, set on the long axis. The mount has an upper inverted drop-shaped plate with a scalloped upper edge and projection at the base. The projection is trilobed with the central lower lobe being a loop with a central hole. The loop is likely to have had an element suspended from it, now missing. The main plate is decorated with a possible moulded human face at the centre, perhaps flanked by wings. The lower projection is decorated with a row of three raised oval pellets. Both faces retain…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 11th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-CCADF6
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 and both bent downwards. The mount has a central oval plate with a projection top and bottom. The top projection is in the form of a crown, the lower one is a crude fleur-de-lys. The oval plate is decorated with moulded human face at the centre, below the crown, inside a U-shaped wreath. The rear is flat but for a slight hollow behind the human face. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1600 - 1700 Dimensions: 40.46 mm x 22.42 mm x 3.51 mm Weight: 8.72 g
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th October 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wynford Eagle', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PUBLIC-CC654D
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A complete medieval copper-alloy bar mount with symmetrical hemispherical lobes: at either end a small one with squared off terminal, flanking a larger central one. There are drilled holes for separate rivets in each small lobes, both in situ. The mount is undecorated and generally flat on the reverse; the small lobes are hollow backed. The metal is a dark-grey colour and there are possible file marks on the reverse. Length: 16.7 mm; Width: 8.7 mm; Thickness: 3.6 mm; Weight: 1.3 g See Egan and Pritchard (1991, 213-214; nos 1160, 1161) for similar mounts illustrated from London's…
Created on: Tuesday 10th October 2017
Last updated: Friday 18th January 2019
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Record ID: DOR-21D401
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy sword belt mount with integral attachment spikes. The mount is foliate in outline (three lobes at one end and two at the other), with incised foliate decoration on the surface. It has two integral attachment spikes, both project out at right angles to the back of the plate and are then are bent inwards. They have rectangular cross sections. The construction of this object is similar to that of mounts dated to the 17th Century by Brian Read (see Read, B, (2001) Metal Artefacts of Antiquity but it is similar in shape and decoration to some triple-looped bar mounts iden…
Created on: Monday 2nd October 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th July 2020
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Record ID: DEV-BD6BF4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper alloy swivel, probably dating to c. AD 1100-1500. The item comprises of a single loop, sub-circular and broken at the apex, with either arm tapering into a worn, patinated point. The loop has a sub-circular cross section, with two sets of two gnarled, bulbous ridges flanking a flat oval base with a circular perforation. By comparison to other examples these are most likely highly debased zoomorphic animal heads, grasping the base in their jaws. The base has a large circular perforation. Dimensions: height 22.3mm; width 25.9mm thickness at base 10.6mm; …
Created on: Friday 15th September 2017
Last updated: Friday 15th September 2017
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Record ID: SOM-1373DD
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Post-Medieval copper alloy strap fitting, probably dating to c. AD 1500-1700. The strap fitting consists of a sub-rectangular sheet of copper alloy tapering from an attachment end with rounded corners and a central indentation to the hooked terminal. This is deliniated by a slightly flanged transverse collar from which projects the rearward curving hook, which has a very shallow D-shaped cross section. The fitting is undecorated, and has two rivet holes on the longitudinal median line, both containing iron corrosion. A small copper alloy ring with a D-shaped cross section remains su…
Created on: Thursday 7th September 2017
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2017
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Record ID: DOR-58B56E
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy strap fitting. A purse hanger. The object comprises a large hook extending into a rectangular frame with two apertures. The hook has a backward projecting zoomorphic terminal at the top of the arm. This is in the form of a heavily stylised beast head with recessed muzle and an open, beak-like mouth. Below this and extending down at a right-angle is a recessed recangular section. This is decorated with two areas of obtuse angled cross hatched decoration separated buy an unceorated diagonal band. At the end of this, on the insideof the curvrving hook, is an oval,…
Created on: Thursday 17th August 2017
Last updated: Monday 5th March 2018
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Record ID: DOR-716B30
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy eye section from a two-part toggle clasp from a sword belt. It comprises a rectangular eye through which a toggle on the corresponding section would have fitted with an integral attachment plate. The eye is a rectangular aperture with an arched outer edge and a ridge at the opposite side. Both the arch and the ridge are decorated with a incised diagonal lines. Projecting beyond the edge of the ridge is the plate which is flaring and tri-lobed. The central lobe retains the remnant of an iron rivet in a small circular aperture. The plate us decorated with moulded…
Created on: Thursday 13th July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 17th October 2019
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Record ID: DOR-F629DB
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy sword belt fitting of post-medieval date. The fitting is elongated with a convex front and hollow back. It comprises a central oval element flanked by transverse collars, with a knop at one end and a backwards curving hook at the other. The central oval element is hollowed at the back and convex at the front. It has three longitudinal facets.The oval element and the knop both have central perforations of which the oval element retains a copper alloy, circular sectioned rivet (just below the transverse collar). The hook is D-shaped in cross section and tapers to a r…
Created on: Friday 7th July 2017
Last updated: Monday 20th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sturminster Marshall', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-CF6EE4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy medieval strap slide, dating to the period AD 1350-1400. It is trapezoidal in shape with two internal triangular projections, of c.4mm, near the narrower end. It measures 31.58mm along its front edge externally and 25.56mm across the rear of the frame and internally could have accommodated a strap up to c.22mm wide. The frame is 21.29mm from front to back. The slide weighs 3.10g. The longer front edge is decorated with a knop at either end, and a central knop flanked on either side by a ridge. Cf Egan & Pritchard's Dress Accessories (1991) p234, no.1263.
Created on: Wednesday 5th July 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2017
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Record ID: DOR-206DDC
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap mount. A square openwork mount with the remnants of two integral attachment spikes at the rear. The attachment spikes are set at the mid point of opposite sides of the plate. The plate is decorated with four lozengiform apertures set in a lozenge at the centre of the mount, framed by eight circular apertures grouped in pairs at each corner. The corners of the plate terminate in acorn- shaped knops. Date: Post Medieval - c.1500 - 1700 Dimensions: 25.32 mm x 25.02 mm x 1.82 mm Weight: 5.21 g Similar mounts are recorded in database records WAW-8FA5E6 and BERK-61D67A
Created on: Tuesday 27th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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Record ID: DOR-2028A1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap end with an associated bar mount. A rectangular single sheet strap end with a scalloped end on one side and a squared end at the other. At the squared end is a separately attached rectangular bar mount. It is attached with a single central, circular sectioned rivet which has a rectangular sheet-metal rove at the rear. At the opposite end of the plate is another small, circular rivet, also with a rectangular sheet-metal rove at the rear. There is a black coating over all surfaces. Date: Medieval - c.1350 - 1400 Dimensions: 18.60 mm x 11.02 mm x 2.95 mm Weight: 1.79 g
Created on: Tuesday 27th June 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 13th November 2019
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Record ID: DOR-1FF366
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy belt mount. An asymmetrical mount with a curvilinear outline. The mount comprises a rounded lobe at one end and a pionted trefoil at the other, flanking a sub-triangular mid section. The front of the mount is convex. The rear of the mount is flat and has the stubs of two integral attachment spikes, one at either end. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1550 - 1700 Dimensions: 29.43 mm x 9.43 mm x 2.23 mm Weight: 2.45 g
Created on: Tuesday 27th June 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 17th July 2018
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Record ID: WILT-05AAD9
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval cast copper alloy strap fitting with integral pointed lugs, dating to cAD1600 - 1700. See Read Metal Artefacts of Antiquity 2001 p 29 and 37 fig22 no 334 for very similar. The strap fitting is in the form of an acorn but the 'stem' end has broken away leaving just a stump. The surface is largely worn away but the knop at the lower end of the acorn is extant and the slightly raised ridge which depicts the mouth of the cup of the acorn can be seen. It has a flat underside and one pointed lug is complete, now bent downwards, while the other is only a stump.…
Created on: Monday 8th May 2017
Last updated: Monday 5th June 2017
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Record ID: SOM-14392C
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Early Medieval to Medieval copper alloy belt, casket or book-hasp, probably dating to c. AD 1000-1100. The object is broadly sub-rectangular in form tapering from 7.8mm to 5.2mm, where it ends in a rounded terminal. It is generally D-shaped cross section but with the terminal flattened. Through this flattened section runs a circular rivet hole with the remains of an iron rivet still in situ. Above the rivet the cross section widens into a raised band, which is in turn surmounted by a pair of arches in decoration which is probably zoomorphic in character, the arches representing the…
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Last updated: Monday 14th May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cerne Abbas CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DOR-948454
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete toggle clasp for a sword belt fitting. The toggle terminal and part of the plate only remains. The remnant of the plate has a broken circular attachment at the centre hole and a series of projection around the outer edge. The plate narrows into a short, straight sided neck from which expands the crescent-shaped toggle bar. The neck continues below the toggle bar terminating in a squared end. The rear is flat and undecorated. Date: Post Medieval - c. 1500 - 1700 Dimensions: 24.48 mm x 19.97 mm x 4.76 mm Weight: 3.85 g Read B 2008 Hooked Clasps and Eyes, p 208-9 classifies…
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Saturday 4th March 2017
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Record ID: DOR-947D89
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy bar mount. A small bar with terminal and central lobes. The central lobe is sub-circular, hollow backed and decorated with three deeply moulded horizontal grooves. The flanking terminal lobes are much smaller and each has a circular hole containing a circular sectioned rivet. One lobe has a rounded end, the other lobe is slightly flaring and is squared off at the end. the rear of the and lobes are flat whilst the central lobe is hollowed. Date: Medieval - c. 1350 - 1400 Dimensions: 14.47 mm x 7.96 mm x 3.35 mm Weight: 1.05 g Reference - Egan G and Pritchard F, 199…
Created on: Friday 3rd March 2017
Last updated: Saturday 4th March 2017
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Record ID: DOR-D589AD
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap fitting. A slightly irregular ring of copper alloy which appears to have a high tin content (it has a grey patina). This is probably a junction ring on straps or harness. The ring has a rounded lozengiform cross section which is variable in diameter, possibly as a result of use wear. It is undecorated. Date: Possibly Iron Age to Roman - c. 800 BC to AD 400 Dimensions: 21.33 mm x 4.66 mm x 3.93 mm Weight: 3.81 g
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd February 2017
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