Record ID: SUSS-DEA01B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy strap-end of 'crescentic' type dating c. AD 1400-1450. The object is incomplete, and only the incomplete decorative upper plate remains; the second plain backplate is missing. The surviving crescentic plate has a pentagonal terminal projecting from the centre of outer arc and decorated in moulded relief comprising a trilobe of three lozenge shaped leaves with oblique grooves. Each arm of the cresentic attachment terminates in a worn break through a single rivet hole and there is another pair of surviving circular sectioned iron riv…
Created on: Monday 5th June 2023
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2023
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Record ID: SUSS-E124F5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval copper alloy strap end of Thomas Class B, type 1 (transverse grooved) dating c. AD 750-1050. The object has a wedge shaped split end and waisted body that narrows into a thin neck before broadening towards the pointed oval shaped terminal end. The split end is incomplete with a transverse break through the two rivet holes. The upper surface is decorated in moulded relief with a plain sub-rectangular panel at the split end and the narrow neck is decorated with six raised transverse ridges. The terminal head is zoomorphic in des…
Created on: Monday 5th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 8th December 2022
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Record ID: SUSS-81F9EC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy medieval composite strap-end with pointed end dating to c. AD 1270-1400. The object consists of two sub-trapezoidal plates which taper to a pointed end. A sheet spacer occupies the full width of the strap and approximately one third of its length. The wider attachment end is has a straight top edge and the narrower terminal end has a protruding knop extending from the centre of the edge. The strapend has two copper alloy rivets in situ positioned at each end of the plate, one to secure the spacer and one the strap, the remains…
Created on: Thursday 13th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 24th October 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-DC46FD
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval strap end of Thomas Class B, Type 1 dating c. 800-c.1000. The attachment end is split, originally into two plates, the upper one is missing with a worn transverse break. The remaining plate has one circular rivet hole and the other corner and rivet hole is missing. The long sides of the strap-end converge just under half way down, where they become parallel.The main body of the object is plain with a pair of incised horizontal grooves creating a raised band 27mm; and 12mm from the terminal end below which the terminal takes the form of a crudely execu…
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2022
Last updated: Thursday 7th July 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-CA254B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Medieval copper alloy strap-end dating c. AD 750-950. The split attachment end is rectilinear, and has two rivet holes containing intact rivets at each corner. Below the rivets is a worn recessed trilobate palmette (a fan-shaped field). The central field and edges of the strap-end are very worn and any possible original decoration is now lost. The object has an round-eared animal shaped terminal with narrowed snout. The reverse of the strap-end is flat and undecorated. Measurements: length: 34.96mm; width: 10.28mm; thickness at split end: 3.60mm and wei…
Created on: Tuesday 24th May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 14th June 2022
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Record ID: SUSS-D91463
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete worn early medieval, late Anglo-Saxon, cast copper-alloy strap end, Thomas' Class A, Type 2, dating to the period c. AD 750-900. The strap end is tongue shaped with a sharply pointed, zoomorphic terminal. The split attachment end has the remains of two damaged circular attachment holes along top edge, missing their outer edges. Both holes have the partial remains of the iron rivets. The upper surface decoration is very worn, the eyes are indented and not clearly defined. Behind the head are two large curled ears running back onto the body. Beyond this is an inc…
Created on: Wednesday 6th October 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd December 2021
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Record ID: SUSS-F4B069
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete late early-medieval copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas Class E, Type 1 dating c. AD 900-1100. The artefact comprises of the lower half of a tongue-shaped plate composed of Winchester-style openwork 'plant scrolls' decoration moulded in low relief with four apertures; the reverse is flat. The object very worn and abraded, it is a red brown in colour with pale green patches of corrosion on the reverse. The strap end measures 23.69 mm in length, 24.01 mm wide, and 3.87 mm thick; it weighs 5.13 g. A similar example can be found illustrated in (Griffiths et al.…
Created on: Monday 13th September 2021
Last updated: Monday 13th September 2021
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Record ID: SUSS-A6D775
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Early Medieval copper alloy strap end dating c. AD 1050-1150. The strap end best fits Thomas Class E (Thomas, 2000); and is tongue shaped with an integral, rectangular recessed attachment plate at one end and a curved terminal end. There is no evidence of any rivets or rivet holes within the attachment plate and it appears damaged along the long edge. The front of the plate is decorated in assymetrical high relief within a raised plain border consisting of a central standing lion facing the attachment end. The animal is heavy set with a beaked snout and a long re-curved ta…
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 15th September 2021
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Record ID: SUSS-A6CAEA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, very worn copper-alloy late early Medieval to Medieval strap end of Thomas's Class H dating c. AD 1000-1200. The split attachment end is missing but would have been wedge shaped. The remaining flat section is decorated with longitudinal grooves and tapers to a worn narrow moulded central section. Below is the terminal section; a sub-oval tongue with lower rounded lobe with grooved decoration around a central sub triangular recess. The object is a mid-brown colour. Measurements: 31.72mm long, 9.19mm wide at widest point and is 4.06mm thick. It weighs 2.98 grams…
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 28th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-A6A4FB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval, late Anglo-Saxon, cast copper-alloy strap end, Thomas' Class A, Type 2, dating to the period c. AD 800-900. The strap end is tongue shaped with a sharply pointed, zoomorphic terminal. The split attachment end has the remains of two circular attachment holes along top edge. The upper surface is crudley decorated with a crisscross incised linear pattern within a panel that runs about three quarters of the length of the plate. The lower quarter of the plate represents the head of an animal with four stamped crescents below the cross-hatched panel repres…
Created on: Wednesday 4th August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 28th September 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

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: HAMP-DF2169
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy early Medieval (Anglo Saxon) strap end of Thomas' Class B Type 1, 49.9mm in length. The degraded zoomorphic terminal comprises two in-line lobes with dot and annulet decoration. The flared and split rear end has two drilled rivet holes and a trefoil rear edge; the front is decorated with further dot and annulet decoration. One copper alloy rivet is retained. The narrow body of the object is decorated with two sets of three transverse incised grooves.
Created on: Monday 7th June 2021
Last updated: Monday 7th June 2021
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Record ID: SUSS-0ED31C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast Early Medieval silver strap-end dating to circa AD 900–1100. The strap-end is broadly tongue-shaped with a slightly flared terminal and a split end for a belt, pierced by three domed silver rivets. The plate is slightly waisted below the attachment end, where a broad, raised transverse border divides the attachment end from the main plate. The main plate is decorated with an acanthus foliate design,consisting of a central downward-pointing stem emerging from the centrepoint of the band,from which issue lateral leaves. The narrow, central stem flares into a fan-sh…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 27th February 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Arundel', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-D104CB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A rather worn middle/ late early-medieval (800-1000) copper alloy and niello strap-end of Thomas' class A, probably type 1 (A1; Trewhiddle), perhaps type 2 (A2; Patterned). It has a split end (9.4x3.3mm) and convex sides (max.13.7x2.1mm). The decoration takes the form of a sub-rectangular panel and a semi-circular panel between an edging of rectangles flanking the long sides. Beyond the straight short edge of the rectangular panel is a the zoomorphic terminal. The sub-rectangular terminal is defined by a grooved line with one stright short edge, two convex long edges and a final …
Created on: Wednesday 19th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 24th February 2020
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Record ID: SUR-D14C32
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy zoomorphic terminal from a strap end dating to the Early Medieval period (c. AD 700-1000), of Thomas class B type 4. The fragment is is 33.2mm in length with a worn break at one end. The terminal is in the form of an animal head with moulded features and is sub-rectangular in cross-section; the eyes are separate black inlays, possibly glass, of which one remains. . There is at least one additional confronted pair of heads positioned behind the terminal, however the details are too worn to discern. The underside is undecorated.
Created on: Tuesday 26th November 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd December 2019
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Record ID: SUSS-511496
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, copper-alloy strap end of Medieval date, dating to AD 1400-1500. The object is rectangular in plan, consisting of two plates terminating in a highly stylised knop, which as been damaged. The front plate has incised decoration. The back plate is flat and undecorated. The terminal end has a rounded knop, resembling an acorn. (See Egan & Pritchard (1991), 148-149, figs. 704 and 705). Similar examples of the database include: SF-A17267 and NARC-FB4CEE.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 10th May 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Thakeham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-110768
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy strap end of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 750 - 950 (probably Thomas' Class A, Type 2). There are no traces of decoration on either face, with a probable, zoomorphic terminal that is too worn to identify. Most similar strap ends have the zoomorphic terminal, such as YORYM-064E1C.
Created on: Thursday 5th September 2019
Last updated: Friday 12th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Arun Area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-DC2F3D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy, probable Medieval strap end, dating to circa AD 1250-1450. Only one sub-rectangular plate from a composite strap end survives. The shape of the strap end tapers slightly, and ends in a pointed, triangular end. The outer face is decorated with parallel Vs along all of it. Measurements: length: 47.49mm, width: 20.77mm, thickness: 1.47mm, weight: 4.99g
Created on: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 31st July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Arun', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-DBB986
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Medieval strap end, dating to circa AD 1250-1450. Only one rectangular plate from a composite strap end survives. At one end, there are two rivet holes with the copper alloy rivets still in situ. A rounded notch is missing from the edge between both the rivets. Measurements: length: 50.46mm, width: 18.04mm, thickness: 1.59mm, weight: 6.79g
Created on: Tuesday 16th July 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 31st July 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Arun', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-5C39B3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy object with a single rive hole. Possibly a Medieval strap end. The shaft tapers towards a broken point. No decoration on either face, making it difficut to date and identify This object measures 41.41mm long , 9.34mm at the rivet end tapering to3.45mm. It is 1.21mm thick and weighs 1.9grams.
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2019
Last updated: Monday 5th August 2019
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