Record ID: LANCUM-0CF597
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap end or possibly a buckle plate dating from the medieval period, that is c. AD1200-1500. The artefact remains intact with front and back undamaged. While the reverse is plain, the obverse is decorated with incised decoration which may have held a niello inlay. The imagery is difficult to identify from the image, but the style of decoration suggests something floral rather than figurative or geometric. There are two rivet holes towards the bottom edge of the artefact and, what may be the remains of the buckle pin, towards the front, The bar which was part of the …
Created on: Thursday 5th June 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 22nd August 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Boston', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-0A6FAC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval sheet copper alloy shield-shaped strap end with angled inside edge, two notches in each side, two rivets and an outside edge which has been curled over towards the front face. This latter feature would have performed the same function (probably in engagement with a folding strap clasp) as the normal bar-mount. One rivet is near the inside edge, the other in the centre. 17.5 x 11mm. 14th - mid 15th century. (field RG1)
Created on: Thursday 5th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 5th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-08B566
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval (1250-1450) copper alloy composite strap-end, with a front and back plate and a forked spacer between. It measures 27.35x12.53x3.41mm and weighs 3.29g. The plate has gently expanding sides to the open end (which has a slightly in-curved edge) and a projecting triangular knop at the closed end. The metal has a smooth shiny dark green patina and is decorated with a series of grooves. A pair flank the long edges and the shorter edge, with a single line drawing a V shape inside the knop. At the other 'open' end are two bands of decoration, the first created by two pairs of tra…
Created on: Thursday 5th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 5th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bishops Sutton', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-084EB5
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and worn copper-alloy composite strap end of Medieval date. Only the attachment end survives, the remainder of the object is missing due to old breaks, now worn. The front and back plates are flat and rectangular in shape. They are either side of a sheet spacer, occupying their whole width. The top of the front plate is decorated with two U-shaped notches. At the attachment end is a central separate copper-alloy circular rivet with a flattened round head. This strap end measures 16.59mm in length, 8.54mm in width, 2.15mm in thickness, 1.07g in weight. There is a…
Created on: Thursday 5th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 5th June 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milden', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-062200
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Rutland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval? copper alloy strap end, 37mm long, 8mm wide and 4mm thickk with a weight of 4.10grams. The strap end is rectangular in form and sub rectangular in section. It is elongated and terminates with a three dimensional depition of a clenched fist. It has a single rivet placed just below its upper straight edge.
Created on: Thursday 5th June 2014
Last updated: Friday 26th February 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Rutland', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-0460F3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy two-part strap-end, tapering tongue-shaped sheet plates, copper alloy rivet in attachment end and above rounded terminal. Length 29mm. Width 12mm. 13th-14th century.
Created on: Thursday 5th June 2014
Last updated: Thursday 5th June 2014
Spatial data recorded.