Record ID: NMS-A92457
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete probably Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy strap fitting or buckle plate, a D-sectioned bar with two iron rivets, one through an ovoid terminal and the other before a bifurcation. Between the two the convex front is decorated with moulded chevrons that may constitite a stylised animal head. Beyond the bifurcation both incomplete narrow arms are decorated with three slight moulded swellings. There is some resemblance to buckle plates or strap fittings with zoomorphic decoration from two Norfolk sites, Sedgeford (HER 51077, NMS-3712D7) and Bracon Ash (HER 35891, NMS-…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Monday 27th July 2015
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Record ID: NMS-AB2B95
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very large medieval copper alloy bar-mount with two rivet holes in the terminal lobes and a large central pierced lobe. Between the lobes the sides are bevelled and there is a median arris. On the partly hollow reverse the rivet holes are countersunk, and there are file marks and a large patch of solder or tinning. Similar to an example from Leicestershire (LEIC-D14692) and one excavated in Hull (Goodall, A.R. in Armstrong and Ayers 1987, 204-5, fig. 117 no. 189). Other examples have been recorded in Norfolk, at Banham (HER 32136), East Walton (HER 29273) and Narborough (HER 15148, NM…
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Thursday 12th June 2014
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Record ID: NMS-AF64B1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy strap loop, pentagonal with (missing) separate internal rivet. A very slender example. 9.2 x 12.5mm. 6mm internally. Late 13th - 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 1st April 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 1st April 2014
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