Record ID: NMS-FF443F
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Probable fragment of a late Roman copper-alloy amphora-shaped strap end, with punched ring-and-dot decoration on one face. Two incomplete curved amphora handles, the top of the neck in between these, and two very short stubs of an attachment loop are extant, all terminating in worn breaks. The edge between the two stubs is straight, and one of the stubs is curved (the other is too small to be certain), which suggests that the attachment loop was oval with straight sides when complete. Ring-and-dot decoration covers the neck and handles but is absent from a strip of about one and a hal…
Created on: Tuesday 27th July 2021
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd September 2021
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Record ID: NMS-3CA29B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Broken Anglo Scandinavian tongue-shaped strap end of Thomas class E4. The object is bifurcated at its upper end, with two rivet holes placed to either side, only one of which is fully extant. The front surface has moulded shallow-relief decoration with a transverse border uppermost; within which there are a series of five internally decorated spiral or ring and dot motifs. The decoration below this is difficult to resolve due to corrosion and a transverse break but is probably a Borre style animal mask with interlaced body. The design has a good resemblance to a class E4 strap-end ill…
Created on: Tuesday 18th May 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 1st June 2021
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Record ID: NMS-54A298
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Tiny strap-end of 14th-century date, made from two pieces of copper-alloy sheet. One is shorter than the other and is smoothly polished; the other is much rougher and may have been a central spacer plate rather than a backplate. It is bent and one end is broken. The surviving end is cut into curved shoulders and then a relatively long terminal ending in a quatrefoil. The sheets are joined by a copper-alloy rivet through the quatrefoil. Surviving length 26mm, width 7mm, weight 0.57g.
Created on: Wednesday 20th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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Record ID: NMS-0512C4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval tinned copper alloy three-part strap-end, tongue-shaped sheet plates, copper alloy rivet at upper end, forked spacer, terminal knop. Length 28mm. Width 9.5mm. 3mm thick. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd October 2019
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Record ID: NMS-E5E402
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn and incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy probable strap end, both ends missing, openwork zoomorphic terminal comprising an elaborately interlaced beast with head in profile, tendrils and traces of engraved details on one face. Extant length 31mm. Width 19mm. Weighs 5.14g. 11th century. There are a number of similar strap ends known with Ringerike and Urnes-style ornament, and most of these have been described as strap ends (eg Thomas' Class B, type 6). However, Williams suggests, with reference to a similar less elaborate find (SUR-D38E82), that 'the orientation of the terminal …
Created on: Monday 10th June 2019
Last updated: Friday 3rd April 2020
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Record ID: NMS-E56013
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of medieval white metal coated copper alloy openwork strap-end, broken at both ends, the upper end across a flat-sectioned constriction below a probable missing socket, the lower end broken across one of a triangular arrangement of three integral concave-faced disks and the stumps of the narrowed flanking sides. Each disk is decorated with an engraved trefoil or lis. Extant length 26.5mm. Width 35mm. 3mm thick. Form as in Fingerlin 1971, Plate 451, Kat. Nr. 259. Late 14th/early 15th century.
Created on: Monday 10th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 4th August 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D79E9E
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap end dating to the period c. AD 1250 - 1450. Tongue-shaped, folded lengthways along one edge. The spit end exhibits a circular rivet hole containing a copper alloy rivet with roved over ends. Traces of material, probably leather, survive within. The front plate exhibits an engraved zigzag running from rivet to tip, flanked on either long edge by an engraved line. Similar examples are discussed by Egan & Pritchard (2002), p. 130 - 131.
Created on: Monday 4th September 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 28th October 2020
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Record ID: NMS-99059C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap end dating to the period c. AD 1200 - 1500. Broadly triangular in form, cast in one piece with a number of casting flaws. The split end exhibits a single rivet hole containing the corroded remains of an iron rivet. It tapers to a rounded point, the tip of which is curled under.
Created on: Tuesday 8th August 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 8th August 2017
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Record ID: NMS-36E4AD
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete forked spacer with an acorn knop from a medieval copper alloy composite tongue-shaped strap end. Part of one prong is missing. Length and width 45 and 13.7mm. Mid 14th - mid 15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 4th April 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 4th April 2017
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Record ID: NMS-7DBFEF
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy composite strap end dating to the period c. AD 1250 - 1400. Only the topmost element now survives. It conisits of a trapezoidal strip of sheet metal, bent at an acute angle and with an old break at the attachment end. It tapers towards an ornate foliate terminal. There is one rivet surviving in situ at the terminal end, with a second rivet hole visible at the edge of the break at the attachment end. The attachment end is decorated with a field of engraved cross-hatchings followed by two engraved transverse lines. Similar examples are discussed in E…
Created on: Tuesday 14th March 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 14th March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wortham', grid reference and parish protected.