Record ID: SF-1E8422
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: An incomplete silver strap end, one half of the attachment edge is missing due to an old break. It is rectangular in shape and the attachment end is solid but thinner than the rest of the strap end, it is flush with the back face. This attachment end has two and a half surviving circular rivet holes and is likely to have had four originally. There is a silver rivet in situ within one of the complete rivet holes. The front of the strap end is decorated with a stylised plant-like device. This has a central stem projecting downwards from the attachment end, which terminate…
Created on: Wednesday 9th May 2007
Last updated: Friday 17th October 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Suffolk', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF1237
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lower fragment of a copper alloy zoomorphic strap-end. Consists of a damaged zoomorphic terminal in the form of an animal's head seen from above, with circular ears and lunate eyes, nose broken away. The lozenge-shaped brow is decorated with an inlaid setting of niello and silver-wire scrollwork. The main plate, which is damaged, retains the remains of three tear-shaped fields also inlaid with settings of niello and silver-wire scrollwork. This strap-end belongs to a local East Anglian variant of the popular series of 9th century strap-end characterised by split attachment ends, conve…
Created on: Monday 7th February 2000
Last updated: Thursday 6th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK TRIMLEY ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF1480
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy strap-end; slightly convex outline with zoomorphic terminal featuring square ears with lunate incisions, lentoid eyes and a squared off snout; split attachment end pierced by a pair of rivet holes and decorated with a stylised trilobate palmette; central field with engraved chevron design inlaid with niello.
Created on: Wednesday 16th February 2000
Last updated: Monday 3rd March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF1596
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper alloy tongue-shape strap-end; split attachment end pierced by a pair of iron rivets; front surface has a central longitudinal rib set above the level of the surrounding plate, this protrudes slightly below the bottom edge, both the rib and plate are decorated with longitudinal columns of punched ring-and-dots, while the areas of the plate flanking the rib are decorated with an incised zigzag; the back of the strap-end below the split-end is slightly stepped and has a slight groove in the vicinity of the frontal rib; worn and corroded. A member of a distinctive class of 10th-cen…
Created on: Thursday 2nd March 2000
Last updated: Thursday 6th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK NETTLESTEAD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF1872
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy tongue-shaped strap-end. Recessed attachment end with scalloped upper edge pierced by a row of five dome-headed copper alloy rivets,, the central one of which is missing. The central panel of decoration is cast in heavy relief, and enclosed within a raised outer border. The decoration, which is based upon a formalised geometric acanthus design, consists of a central concave-sided cross. Each arm has foreshortened terminals which end in rectangular lobes provided with internal transverse grooves; the centre of the cross is occupied by a diamond-shaped boss with an …
Created on: Friday 17th March 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 26th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CLAYDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2380
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragmentary cast copper alloy strap-end; lower section of openwork tongue-shaped plate; relief decoration on front surface ; consists of a stylised cup-shaped calyx formed from double-contoured band, the base of which issues a central stem which divides the calyx in two, each half is drilled with a circular hole; the stem bifurcates further up the plate to form a pair of foliate scrolls; the plate is missing above this point; plain reverse. No published parallels.
Created on: Friday 5th May 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 4th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF2709
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end; cast sub-triangular outline with a very stylised pointed zoomorphic terminal with faceted ears and eyes; main body plain apart from two transverse notches cut into metal at split-end; upper edge of split-end bent and damaged, pierced by single centrally placed rivet hole that may be secondary; front surface tinned; crude example of a 9th-century type of strap-end.
Created on: Wednesday 14th June 2000
Last updated: Tuesday 12th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF275
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragmentary copper-alloy strap-end; upper corner fragment from a tongue-shaped Winchester-style strap-end with recessed attachment plate fastened via 2 iron rivets; one missing; decorative openwork plate in the form of an upper centrally disposed lion mask issuing plant tendrils.
Created on: Monday 8th November 1999
Last updated: Monday 27th January 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK SUTTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF4115
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete strap-end, missing its terminal. The front, back and sides are cast in one piece and the strap-end is hollow. The complete end is presumably the attachment end, as it is open and cut straight across, but there is no visible means of attachment. The other end is squashed and broken off (old break). Both front and back have identical openwork decoration with engraved detail, and the sides both have irregularly spaced transverse grooves. The decoration on front and back is complicated. Held with the attachment end uppermost, at the top is a pair of back-to-back birds with a ro…
Created on: Wednesday 6th December 2000
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK TUNSTALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5245
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas's Class B, Type 1, probably dating to the 9th century. The attachment end is split and rather unevenly made; one corner of the under half is missing. The two halves are held together by two copper-alloy rivets. The upper half has a small notch between the two rivet holes. The strap-end tapers from the split end, with the taper becoming more gentle after the split ends. There is decoration on the sides and upper surface but this is very worn; it appears to consist of four transverse grooves just before the split, then four more widely spaced transverse …
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2001
Last updated: Friday 21st February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.