Record ID: SF-5CE2A2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy object of Early Anglo-Saxon date, possibly a strap or belt fitting. Both ends are incompete due to old breaks. At one (attachment?) end there are the remains of three evenly spaced oval shaped lugs. The central of these three lugs survives intact and has a single oval aperture that demonstrates signs of use wear, the lugs to either side missing their outer edges due to old breaks. The front face of the plate is deeply recessed, creating prominent raised borders along the attachment(?) end and both sides, the border at the terminal(?) end curving to a central…
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2015
Last updated: Monday 9th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barningham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-96B834
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An oval copper-alloy object, probably a strap-slide of late Anglo-Saxon date. The object is flattish, and incomplete on a small part of the circumference due to old breaks. It is also slightly curved, to give a convex appearance on the outside. There is a raised rib of metal running along the long axis, approximately 1.75mm in thickness and 4.65mm in width. The metal of the rib has a reddish tinge and is decorated with eight separate ring-and-dot motifs. These also cover the entire front surface in a haphazard way. The rib turns at right angles at the edge of the disc, and projects be…
Created on: Monday 17th August 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 7th May 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hintlesham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-FD3563
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy hooked, or looped fitting of 'socketed hook' type, most likely to be late Anglo-Saxon circa 11th century in date. It measures 36.1mm in total length, above the incomplete hooked terminal there are two opposing bars, the front one of which bears incised decoration. At the open terminal the bars are joined by a 'D' shaped ring which forms the open socket 17.6mm in width and 16mm in thickness, the front face of the socket has a protruding quatrefoil boss and traces of incised radiating lines can be seen on this. The solid incomplete hooked terminal has a central lon…
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2006
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bures St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-FCF566
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy hooked, or looped fitting of 'socketed hook' type, most likely to be late Anglo-Saxon circa 11th century in date. It measures 38.9mm in total length, above the incomplete hooked terminal there are two opposing bars, the front one of which bears incised decoration. At the open terminal the bars are joined by a 'D' shaped ring which forms the open socket measuring 16.4mm in width and 14.8mm in thickness, the front face of the socket has a protruding quatrefoil boss and traces of incised radiating lines can be seen on this. The solid incomplete hooked terminal has …
Created on: Tuesday 21st March 2006
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bures St Mary', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-F90718
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy ‘socketed hook’. This object consists of an openwork circular-sectioned socket, expanded on the front into a convex, roughly oval plate which on other examples is more distinctly cross-shaped. A strut extends from the front and back, and the struts converge to meet at a solid conical terminal which tapers into what was originally a hook or loop but which is now incomplete. The front strut has a scalloped outline which on other examples is sometimes engraved with a fish-like motif. The rear strut is straight-edged and rectangular in cross-section. It me…
Created on: Thursday 22nd July 2004
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Finborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1065A1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A square gilt bronze strap fitting with chip-carved zoomorphic ornament of unusual detail and quality on one square face. The reverse shows four bronze rivets, which are c.2mm in diameter and extend 2.5mm from the back of the plate, on three of which are preserved washers some 6mm in diameter and 0.8mm in thickness. These are intended to secure the mount to a lost leather or wooden receiving material, probably a leather strap. The rivets are arranged in a square grouping, each being inset equally from one of the corners of the mount. The chip-carved face has an outer frame 1mm broad, …
Created on: Tuesday 11th November 2003
Last updated: Wednesday 4th July 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Hatcheston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-0C5D66
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A complete cast silver shoe-shaped stud. This stud is 27.34mm in length and 14.60mm at its widest point (its rounded end). Studs such as this example are called 'shoe-shaped' as they are characteristically rounded at one end and pointed at the other, and there is a pair of opposing crescent shaped notches in between the rounded and pointed terminals (set slightly closer to the rounded end) which makes them look a little like a footprint. The front face has a slightly raised border, and within this there are tiny irregularly placed ring-and-dot motifs. If there was originally anything …
Created on: Tuesday 11th November 2003
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North of Ipswich', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-AF31E6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A very interesting incomplete cast-in-one copper-alloy strap fitting, 30mm in length and 14mm in width. It consists of a rounded hollow terminal with a rectangular projection from one face; there would have originally have been two parallel projections but one is now missing due to an old break. The rounded hollow terminal has a vertical circular hole through its centre which is filled with corroded iron, as is the underside of the terminal. This object is decorated with ring-and-dot to form two faces, one on either face. These faces consist of two ring and dot eyes and a projecti…
Created on: Thursday 26th June 2003
Last updated: Tuesday 13th December 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Akenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-BB4D92
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper alloy mount. This mount consists of a central part, which is circular in plan, measuring 18mm in diameter, the front face of which projects in a triangular shape, which is 7mm in height, and is decorated with grooves radiating downwards from its tip. The back face is concave and undecorated. There were probably originally four protrusions projecting from this central part, three of them are still complete. The protrusions form evenly spaced opposing pairs, they are 8mm in length, 5mm in width and taper to a point. They appear to be small animal heads, the fron…
Created on: Friday 9th May 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Stoke Ash', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10754
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A copper-alloy mount, 37mm in length and 24mm in width with a thickness of 6mm. On the front face grooves depict a horse and its rider, the horses head is bent and its reins are clearly seen, open work circular perforations highlight its legs and neck. The rider and the folds of his clothes can be seen, the knees are bent, the arms are raised and bent and perhaps a drinking vessel is being held in the hands. The head is worn but complete. The back face of this mount is flat and undecorated. Barry Ager, at the British Museum, was consulted about this interesting mount and he believes th…
Created on: Thursday 6th March 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF10341
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete copper-alloy strap fitting, 31mm in length and 16mm in width. This object is flat and almost triangular in shape, it tapers to a point and the wider end is incomplete due to an old break. The front face is decorated with an repousse interlace design, consisting of a plait of pairs of raised lines, within a boarder groove. The back face is undecorated. Although no direct parallel for this object could be found it is likely to be a strap fitting of some kind, either a strap end or perhaps a mount of some kind. Its decoration is similar to that found on strap ends and mounts…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd January 2003
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'MILDENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9438
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
An early-medieval copper-alloy strap-fitting 37mm in length. This object has a rectangular-shaped shaft, at one of the terminals the shaft has a larger rectangular panel measuring 10mm in width and 8mm in length, this panel is flat and 1mm thick. Near its top edge this rectangular panel has two identical circular holes, which are adjacent to each other, one in the centre of the panel and the other to one side of it. Below the rectangular panel the shaft of the object becomes thicker, and is 4mm thick, the front face is also rounded and decorated with grooves, top beneath the rectangul…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd October 2002
Last updated: Monday 9th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CAMPSEY ASH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8856
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusual Carolingian-style copper-alloy strap-slide. It is cast in one piece, in the shape of a rectangular loop with one long side expanded into a decorative rectangular plate measuring 22.5 x 12 mm. This is slightly convex along both axes and has deeply carved decoration. Along the centre is a broad ridge which rises to a curved peak at either end and a third in the middle; between each peak and at either end is a pair of short longitudinal grooves. The decoration to either side is roughly symmetrical; a U-shaped groove (on one side) or cut-out (on the other) in the centre of eac…
Created on: Monday 1st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 6th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8477
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy mount in the shape of an equal-armed cross. Two arms only, plus the centre of the cross, survive. Each arm tapers, one from 7.5 mm to 5.5 mm wide and the other from 6.5 to 5.5 mm, before finishing in a rounded end. The arms are decorated with a long U-shaped chip-carved groove. In the centre is a square, around which is a chip-carved groove. This extends a little way down the centre of each of the U-shaped grooves, and so forms the shape of an 8-point star. Gilding survives well in all of the grooves and there is a grey patina, probably the remains of silverin…
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8441
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Severely abraded terminal from a copper-alloy strap-end. Part of a central panel survives, with relief decoration of a longitudinal ridge which develops into a possible oval; all that remains now forms a Y shape. At the other end of the longitudinal ridge is a broad transverse ridge that separates the central panel from the terminal. Originally this terminal would have been in the form of an animal head, and it is possible to discern two long thin relief ears which run up the sides to meet the transverse ridge. Below these is a triangular panel of niello (black silver sulphide) in …
Created on: Wednesday 24th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANTHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8381
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Harness fitting made from copper alloy and decorated with Ringerike-style engraving. It is largely flat, with a broken arched projection at one end; below this the object flares out in a series of symmetrical incurves, and has two circular perforations before curving back to a narrow flat projection at the other end. This end also appears to be broken, although both breaks are old and worn so hard to recognise. The decoration is now very worn too, so that it is hard to read; shallowly engraved lines in a symmetrical pattern might suggest a pair of opposed animal heads whose beaks curv…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ARWARTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8220
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small strap-end made from two pieces of corroded copper-alloy sheet. Both pieces are roughly the same shape; they are joined together at one end by a large corroded copper-alloy rivet, and perhaps some solder as well. The plates are widest (8.5 mm wide) at the riveted end, and taper to 4 mm wide at the other end, where the plates are 2.5 mm apart. The strap-end is 29 mm long. No decoration can be seen on either plate. The shape is unusual and, combined with the lack of decoration, makes this object hard to date; it may perhaps be Anglo-Saxon or medieval.
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 19th October 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7450
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy object, perhaps a strap-fitting. One right-angled corner survives, with surviving dimensions of 25 x 33 mm. The two surviving edges both have angled flanges on the reverse, and also on the reverse is a chunky but broken pierced D-shaped lug. The front is corroded but many of the details of the decoration can be seen. There are three rectangular bosses, all with the remains of sheet silver covering them. The most complete area of silver retains some irregular diagonal cross-hatched grooves. The bosses sit on top of relief ribbons which curve around in a rather angular…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6617
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small strap-end made from two pieces of copper-alloy sheet. One end is 7 mm wide and cut straight across, and here the two pieces are held together by a single copper-alloy rivet. Both sheets then flare slightly to 8 mm wide, and one is decorated with a longitudinal row of four ring-and-dot motifs. The end is then cut into three facets, two at an angle and the central one straight across. The decorated sheet has three small nicks in the edges of the two side facets. Although there is no obvious means of joining the two sheets at this end, it is possible that they could have been so…
Created on: Wednesday 22nd August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF5246
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three small copper-alloy strap loops still attached to a small copper-alloy ring. Each strap loop is made from a piece of circular-section bronze rod, bent into a loop, with the ends flattened and pierced to take two iron rivets each. There is a tiny split at the junction of one flattened end with its loop and this may show that the ends were made by folding a longer flattened part in half. The two best-preserved loops are each 7 mm wide and 17 mm long; the other is slightly bent out of shape, 8 mm wide and 18 mm long. The diameter of the rod used is nearly 2 mm and the flattened e…
Created on: Thursday 19th April 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CODDENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.