Record ID: LIN-26ABC8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late Saxon copper alloy strap end. It is tongue shaped and broken at both ends. The body is decorated with a worn lozenge motif of four sub-triangular recessed segments.
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Last updated: Saturday 29th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Louth area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LIN-265BE3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy strap end, Thomas type A. It is tongue shaped and has a split attachment end with two rivet holes. The terminal, which was probably in the form of an animal head, is missing. The body is decorated with a panel with a narrowed, curved waist; the perimeter is decorated incised groves. The grooves are filled with a white coloured substance.
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Last updated: Saturday 29th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Louth area', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-25A408
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete, worn copper-alloy Medieval composite strap end. It is missing part of the spacer towards the attachment end, due to old breaks, now worn. The front and back plates are undecorated, flat and rectangular in shape and taper towards the terminal end. They are either side of a sheet spacer, occupying their whole width. At the terminal end there is an acorn shaped knop with a single collar. Canvas fibres from the strap still remain between the plates at the attachment end. This strap end measures 31.50mm in length, 9.87mm in width, 3.08mm in thickness, 2.35g in weight. …
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isleham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: KENT-24A171
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early medieval copper alloy strap end dating to the 9th century. This is a Thomas Class A, Type 2 strap end with convex sides and a zoomorphic terminal. The strap end is broken before the split end. The front surface is decorated with six crescent-shaped stamps above the zoomorphic terminal - three pairs separated by a vertical groove. The animal head of the zoomorphic terminal is quite stylized with the snout, eyes and ears defined by cast grooves. The body of the strap-end is decorated with two parallel rectangular cells for enamel, now missing. This example is simi…
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Last updated: Friday 6th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.

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Record ID: NMS-245258
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite tongue-shaped strap end with a full-width spacer and two rivets. Above the knop there are two pairs of opposed lateral cut-outs, one half-circular, one rectangular. An additional bi-lobed cast piece is riveted to the front of the knop, cf. Margeson 1993, no. 234, Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 703. The front sheet plate is decorated in rocker-arm engraving with a line along both sides, an elongated side-to-side saltire and in three of the angles with a short length. The object is widest at the straight inside edge. Width 22mm. Length 76.5mm (length of spa…
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-218A08
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy composite strap end, probably once with a forked spacer. What remains consists of an ovoid cast spacer with a knop, two outer sheet plates with open centres, and an extra probably cast piece on the rear of the knop. There is a rivet through the knop and another near the break which cuts through all three elements. The spacer is solid, and where exposed by the apertures in the sheet plates is decorated with three sunken circular fields, each enclosing five drilled holes, and with seventeen smaller blind-drilled holes on the front face. There would have …
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Last updated: Monday 24th March 2014
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Record ID: NMS-212805
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete medieval copper alloy three-part strap-end, tongue-shaped plates and full width spacer with pointed terminal, copper alloy rivet-hole through attachment end and at terminal securing spacer. Length 41.5mm. Width 8.5mm. 14th century.
Created on: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 5th February 2014
Spatial data recorded.