Record ID: ESS-81E632
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy strap end (Thomas Class B, Type 1) of early medieval date (c.750-850). Description: The strap end remains as the tapering attachment end which terminates in three moulded ribs before a transverse break. The split attachment end is bilobed and has two attachment holes, now missing their rivets. The front plate has also broken away in parts around the holes. The fragment is undecorated. It has a medium green patina.  Measurements: length: 22.2mm; width: 11mm; thickness: 3.7mm; weight: 2.92g Discussion: It is not clear whe…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: ESS-81A5F6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap end (probably Thomas Class B, Type 5) of early medieval date (c.800-900). Description: The strap end is parallel sided, with a tapering, pointed terminal engraved with three grooves on the front only. It also has a groove running around the edge, seen in profile, possibly representing a partly open mouth. The attachment end is missing. The front has very worn, decoration in the form of engraved repeating crescent motifs either side of a central spine engraved with chevrons. The reverse of the strap end is flat and undecora…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: ESS-C7B6A1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete cast copper-alloy strap end (Thomas Class A, Type 1) of early medieval date (c.800-900). Description: The strap end is elongated oval in plan with a bilobed attachment end and curved sides which taper to a moulded, pointed zoomorphic terminal. The animal head terminal has a moulded ears, rectnagular around the edges and rectangular within, a moulded transverse ridged brow above two circular engraved eyes, and a moulded snout, concave at the sides and pointed at the end. The attachment end of the upper plate is engraved with an…
Created on: Friday 15th December 2023
Last updated: Thursday 28th December 2023
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Record ID: ESS-6EF363
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy strap end (Thomas Class B) of early medieval date (c.750-850). Description: The strap end is sub-triangular in plan with a flared attachment end and straight sides. The body is formed of four moulded ellipsoids, each joined to the other by a double ridged collar. The bottom ellipsoid ends in a spherical knop. The split attachment has a single rivet in-situ. The reverse of the strap end is flat and undecorated. The strap end has an even dark green patina. Possible remains of leather or textile are preserved within the attachment.  …
Created on: Monday 11th December 2023
Last updated: Friday 5th January 2024
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Record ID: ESS-767965
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete cast copper-alloy strap end (Thomas Class A, Type 1, Subtype a) of early medieval date (c.800-900). Description: The strap end is sub-rectangular in plan with a transverse attachment end and curved sides which taper to a moulded zoomorphic terminal. The animal head terminal has a moulded ears, circular around the edges and triangular within, a moulded double ridged brow above two circular engraved eyes, and a moulded snout, concave at the sides and flat at the end. The attachment end of the upper plate is engraved with an uncl…
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2023
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Record ID: ESS-CC0BDB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and very worn cast copper-alloy strap end (probably Thomas Class B) of early medieval date (c.750-850). Description: The strap end is sub-triangular in plan with a flared attachment end, now broken on the sides, and tapering sides. The strap end is decorated on one side with transverse grooves. The split attachment does not appear to have rivets in situ. The reverse of the strap end is flat and undecorated. The strap end has an even dark green and red brown patchy patina. Measurements: length 36.95mm; width 5.67mm; thickness 3.26mm; weight&…
Created on: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: ESS-B72D83
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near-complete copper-alloy strap end of medieval date (c.1350-1400). Description: The strap end is comprised of two plates (front and back) and a forked spacer. Both plates are shield shapes with straight side edges, a scalloped upper edge with two notches, and a pointed lower edge. There are two rivets, one each close to the top and bottom edges on the front and the back. The scalloped edge of one side is almost straight and loses a corner.  It has a dark green patina. Inside the space between the plates there appears to be fibrous white and orange te…
Created on: Monday 20th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 10th January 2024
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Record ID: ESS-856CAA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete copper-alloy strap end of medieval date (c.1175-1300). Description: The object is trapezoid and constructed from a flat sheet folded widthways and decorated on one side with a simple foliate design of two pairs of symmetrical curling tendrils against a textured background. There are two in-situ rivets above which perforate the back half of the sheet. Here, some of the sheet has broken away. The object has a medium green and red-brown mottled patina with traces of gilding. Measurements: length: 18.7mm; width: 13.2mm; thickness: 5mm; weight: 2.56g Discussion: Comp…
Created on: Wednesday 6th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 20th November 2023
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Record ID: ESS-BAE32B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap end of medieval date (1300-1450).  Description: The object is rectangular in plan and cross-section composed of two sheet plates attached to a spacer, one of which is incomplete and broken at the point of a central rivet hole. The object has an integral acorn-shaped knop at the closed end which terminates from a waisted junction with a central transverse ridge. Both the junction and terminal are extensions of the plates and spacer and joined together by way of a rivet through the reverse of the acorn. The acorn h…
Created on: Thursday 3rd August 2023
Last updated: Friday 11th August 2023
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Record ID: ESS-93722B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete cast-copper-alloy strap end (Thomas Class B) of early medieval date (c.750-850). Description: The strap end is sub-triangular in plan and oval in cross-section with a worn attachment end and straight sides which taper to a possible zoomorphic terminal. There is moulded decoration along its length which appears to consist of transverse grooves but this now very worn. The reverse of the strap end is flat. The strap end has a dark green patina. Measurements: length: 41.8mm; width: 5.3mm; thickness: 2.1mm; weight: 1.7g Discussion: Th…
Created on: Thursday 20th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 11th December 2023
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Record ID: ESS-C0AA59
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy composite strap end of medieval date (AD 1300-1450). Description: The object remains as the incomplete forked spacer composed of a U-shaped plate with one fork remaining longer than the other and is very worn. It has a rectangular single-collared projection with a knopped terminal in the shape of an acorn. The object has a dark grey-green patina. Measurements: Length: 30.6mm, Width: 16.6mm, Thickness: 5.4mm, Weight: 3.43g
Created on: Monday 10th July 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 18th July 2023
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Record ID: ESS-C01DFC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap end of medieval date (c.1400-1500). Description: The object remains as the moulded flat plate, trefoil in plan, with most of the crescentic attachment end missing, broken away from the back of the plate. The front of the attachment end, with two rivet holes remains. The moulded decoration is foliate, representing a leaf. The reverse is undecorated Measurements: length: 26 mm, width: 22.6 mm, thickness: 2.3 mm, weight: 4.45 g Discussion: An example of a complete type is GLO-B854DD 
Created on: Wednesday 28th June 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 12th July 2023
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Record ID: ESS-20200B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy composite strap end of medieval date (AD 1300-1450). Description: The object remains as the incomplete forked spacer composed of a U-shaped plate with a possible rivet hole and is very worn. It has a rectangular single-collared projection with a knopped terminal in the shape of an acorn. The object has a dark grey-green patina. Measurements: Length: 25.4mm, Width: 13.7mm, Thickness: 4.8mm, Weight: 2.82g
Created on: Monday 15th May 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 23rd May 2023
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Record ID: ESS-1F2CDA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy composite strap end of medieval date (AD 1300-1450). Description: The object remains as the complete forked spacer composed of a U-shaped plate with a rectangular quadruple-collared projection with rounded knopped terminal. A light green copper-alloy rivet remains in-situ at the base of the plate. The rest of the object has a dark grey-green patina and the plate is heavily filed. Measurements: Length: 27mm, Width: 9.5mm, Thickness: 3.1mm, Weight: 2.15g
Created on: Wednesday 15th March 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 25th April 2023
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Record ID: ESS-735BF7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of cast copper-alloy openwork strap-end, probably dating to the late Early-Medieval period c. AD 900-1100.  Due to the fragmentary nature it has not been possible to confidently identify the type.  The fragment consists of a portion of the main body of the strap-end, is sub-rectangular in shape with three open-work circles and decorated with incised lines that swirl around the open-work features.   
Created on: Tuesday 6th September 2022
Last updated: Monday 26th September 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Moggerhanger', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-497E4A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper-alloy strap-end. Description: The strap end fragment is created from a sheet of copper-alloy, folded over the outer edge to form a hollow trapezoidal shape, with a set of arms extending from one edge. A rivet secures the arms to each other and would have allowed material to have been secured between them. Evidence of break damage suggests there would have been a corresponding set of arms on the other edge, so the strap end would have resembled a U shape. The remains of another rivet hole is visible on the edge of the strap end face. One face of …
Created on: Friday 18th March 2022
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Shalford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-0B3DD2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragmentary copper-alloy strap end dating to the medieval period c. AD 1200-1400. The item is formed of a flat piece of copper-alloy sheet plate, ending in a curved rectangular terminal which is raised higher than that of the sheet plate. At the centre of this terminal is a rivet, still intact. There appears to be some moulded decoration on the terminal, though the nature of the decoration cannot be clearly stated. The flat sheet plate is decorated with zig zag incised lines forming a large cross. Similar artefacts have been recorded on the database, see also LIN-9E550B, SOM…
Created on: Tuesday 15th September 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd September 2020
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Record ID: ESS-BF3A92
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a copper-alloy strap end, dating to the Medieval period c. AD 1250-1500. The item has a flat reverse and slightly convex surface. The terminal portion of a strap end showing a foliate moulded terminal with a rivet hole (1.6mm in diameter) at the centre. There is a constricted neck, and part of a plate with the remains of what is likely two rivet holes. The surface appears to be silvered or tinned, though the condition is abraded. Dimensions weight: 0.71g, length: 10.4mm, width: 10.6mm, thickness: 1.6mm
Created on: Tuesday 18th August 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 6th October 2020
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Record ID: ESS-FEC6D4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy strap end dating to the Medieval period c. 1150-1450. The remaining portion of the artefact is the terminal and part of the spacer forks, which form a 'C' shape. The ends of the spacer fork are broken. The terminal portion is formed of a sub-circular knop and a rectangular shaped collar separating it from the fork portion. Dimensions: weight: 2.78g, length: 20.4mm, width: 15.0mm, thickness: 4.6mm
Created on: Monday 4th May 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 5th May 2020
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Record ID: ESS-B34913
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete silver Saxon strap end. The object is sub rectangular in shape with an undecorated terminal at the closed end and an open split terminal at the attachment end which broken and missing its rivet holes. The central panel is decorated with motifs in a zoomorphic style, featuring the body of a leaping beast with spotted decoration however as the strap end is folded inwards, this is unclear. The central body is enclosed within a plane border which is within a second border of irregularly sized pellets running along both edges. Below the beast motif, are two circl…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd July 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 17th November 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Up Nately', grid reference and parish protected.