Record ID: LVPL-36ACBB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early Medieval copper alloy strap end dating from AD 750 - 950. It is a Trewhiddle style strap end of Thomas sub-type A1ai. The strap end has a zoomorphic closed end in the form of an animal snout. There are crescentic eyes and large looped ears. The main body of the strap end has a billeted outer border, then inside that a plain border. The rectangular panel contains a Trewhiddle style beast. It is probably a single right facing animal with its head towards the split end. The reverse is undecorated. Dimensions: length 31.8mm, Width 12.4mm, Thickness 4.4mm, Weight 2.46g.
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 21st November 2023
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SF-921E77
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy probable Early Medieval strap end dating to circle AD 800-1000. Now very worn, it is broadly trapezoidal in plan tapering into a narrow rounded terminal. The front face is decorated toward the attachment with an incised probable zoomorphic design but is rendered to a more anthropomorphic likeness, perhaps due to the skill of execution of the craftsperson. It contain two opposed almond shaped eyes and mouth below what was probably a main. The lower front face into the terminal is decorated with incised linear decoration. The reverse is flat and undecorated. Th…
Created on: Friday 13th October 2023
Last updated: Friday 13th October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Thelnetham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-19607B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy strap end dating to circa AD 1250-1350. A two piece strap end, it is discoidal in plan with straight edges. At one edge is is split attachment end. The two plates would have been joined together by two rivets in the centre and the outer edge. Only the rivet on the outer edge is now intact. Projecting from the opposite edge is a triangular knop.  It is similar in form to examples depicted in Egan and Pritchard 1991: pg 141 nos 648-651. Similar examples are recorded on the database including LON-DB0D74; SWYOR-45A6C3 and NMS-0A…
Created on: Monday 25th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 27th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Nacton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-308F29
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy strap end dating to circa AD 1300-1450. It is a composite strap end with a forked spacer.  The object has a U-shaped frame, with a lozengiform, collared acorn teminal - plano-convex in section - projecting from the outet edge. From the other end are the incomplete remains of two opposing rectangular-sectioned arms which formed the forked spacer. Several similar composite strap-ends with circular spacers can be seen in Egan' and Pritchard 1991, 140-1 dated to the late 13th to early 15th centuries, being most common in the 14th century. 
Created on: Thursday 14th September 2023
Last updated: Thursday 14th September 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Yaxley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CCC8DC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy with white metal coating late medieval composite crecentic strap end. It is formed from two plates riveted together, the outer one is crescent-shaped with an elaborate knop projecting from its lower end and the rear plate is a smaller D-shaped, but incomplete, covering the reverse of the crescent-shaped section only. The outer face of the crescent-shaped section is decorated with the letters IHS in black letter script with foliate designs to either side. The knop projecting from its lower end is a downwards pointing lozenge-shaped, its outer fa…
Created on: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Last updated: Friday 16th February 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Creeting St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-CC6BF9
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper-alloy strap end dating to circa AD 1200-1400. A composite strap end, it is comprised of two rectangular in plan and plano-convex in section plate joined together by a single rivet, separately cast, copper alloy rivet at the attachment end. The attachment has a rounded edge whilst the body of the strap end tapers to a rounded terminal. The outer plate carries incised decoration comprised of three transverse grooves positioned between the outer edge of the attachment end and the rivet. Beneath the rivet, set between two faintly incised transverse grooves, is a single cr…
Created on: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 31st October 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Finningham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-CA02DA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy strap end dating to circa AD 1200-1400. A composite strap end, the extant piece consists of one of the plates. It is rectangular in plan with an incomplete terminal which survives now as a discoidal knop. The piece terminates as at an old break before the attachment end.  Similar examples are recorded in Egan and Pritchard 1991: pg 142, pl 93, nos 675-684.
Created on: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Gislingham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-C9ECE0
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy strap end dating to circa AD 1150-1450. The extant piece consists of a single single rectangular strip of copper alloy. The terminal is missing. One face contains zig-zag 'rocker' work decoration on the form of two saltires. At the attachment end is a median separately cast copper alloy rivet which would have joined the plate to a second plate creating a composite strap end.
Created on: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Gislingham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-C9D679
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy strap end dating to circa AD 1200-1400.A composite strap end, the extant piece consists of one of the plates. It is rectangular in plan with an incomplete pointed terminal. In the centre is a circular rivet hole 1.4mm in diameter is positioned in the centre, and would have joined the plate to a second plate.  Similar examples are recorded in Egan and Pritchard 1991: pg 142, pl 93, nos 653-663.
Created on: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 16th August 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Gislingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-7DA7B8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy, silver and niello early medieval (late Anglo-Saxon) zoomorphic strap end. The fragment consists of the central section of the strap end with the rear half of the horizontally bifurcated upper attachment end. The outer part of the attachment end and the lower terminal end are both missing. The surviving central section is damaged and corroded, but areas of two parallel, longitudinal panels decorated with traces of niello and silver wire inlay survive. Most of the silver wire is missing from the right side, but to the left it forms two opposing spirals. …
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2023
Last updated: Monday 6th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stowupland', grid reference and parish protected.