Record ID: SF3949
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unidentified object, perhaps a mount from a strap, made from a piece of copper-alloy strip folded in half and secured by a 5 mm long neat cylindrical copper-alloy rivet. Both ends are broken. Both halves of the strip are decorated with ring-and-dot motifs, the shorter having three and the longer having four (perhaps broken at the dot of the fourth, or at a second rivet hole). The fold (a smooth curve) has the corners cut off and holds a ring made of circular-section copper-alloy wire, the ends not quite meeting, 10 mm in diameter. There are similar medieval examples of narrow mount…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK PARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF3665
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end. The finder reported that when found, the terminal was missing; he ground down the broken edge which has resulted in the destruction of a considerable amount of important detail. The attachment end is split and shaped into two lobes, each with a rivet hole. One copper-alloy rivet survives; the other hole is obscured by hard soil encrustations. There does not appear to be a 'fan-shaped' motif below the rivet holes; instead, a broad central groove starts immediately below and runs down to the ground edge. To either side are silver wire scrolls set into a dark …
Created on: Friday 13th October 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK NEWMARKET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF1458
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy mount, possibly a strap-fitting; flat plate with a central diamond-shaped element flanked by a pair of trilobate terminals, both pierced by circular rivet holes through their central lobes; the base of each central lobe is provided with a transverse collar and the central diamond with an engraved inner contour. The terminals which are based on a Scandinavian Ringerike-style union-knot motif mark this object out as most likely Anglo-Scandinavian in origin.
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2000
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.