Record ID: IOW-6C1DDB
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post-Medieval copper-alloy strap fitting for a sword belt (1600-1700). This fitting is in the form of a hooked mount. However, the hook is missing due to a break. Prior to being broken, the maximum width would have been at the top where it was tri-lobed. It has a waist below and beyond the waist the sides flare and then taper to the transverse break. Close to the top, a central rivet hole is filled with the remains of a corroded iron rivet. There is also a broken rivet hole across the break at the opposite end. At the front, converging lines represent a vine-lea…
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 29th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WAW-6B0611
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post Medieval (mid 16th to 17th centuries) strap mount: The copper alloy strap mount is a sub drop in plan with a a small integral knop at the upper edge and an inverted lis at the lower edge. The reverse is undecorated and has two integral studs which are square in section and taper to a point. Both studs are bent over towards each other. The surface of the mount has a mid grey coloured surface. It measures 23.18mm long, 8.44mm wide and 6.31mm thick, weighing 1.5g. Strap fittings have been in use from the late Medieval to Post Medieval period. Egan (2005; p. 39) comments that when…
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Thursday 31st July 2014
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Record ID: NMS-67A4B7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy pendent loop, circular with a collared knop. Cf. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1192. An irregular notch on the inner face of the loop is a casting flaw. Height 16mm. Width 12.5mm. 14th century.
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Monday 28th July 2014
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Record ID: ESS-659819
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper alloy shield shaped strap end, dating to the late 14th century. The object consists of a plate that has a rectangular tab at one end and a circular tab at the other. There is a rectangular bar covering the rectangular section, which has a rectangular section removed along the internal edge. There are two pointed projections beneath the bar and there may have been a further on the rounded edge. The bar is riveted in place, with the rivets still in situ. There is a rivet at the rounded end of the object, also still in situ, which would have connected the ob…
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
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Record ID: SOM-63593F
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy Post Medieval strap fitting with a broken blunt hook and the remains of a circular loop at the opposite end. The loop is broken at the point it attached to the main plate with patinated breaks. Below this the main plate is oval with smaller transverse rectangular bars at either end attached to the loop and hook.The main oval is slightly convex at the front and concave at the back. Both end bars have incised lines running across their centre, parallel to the longer edge, one is a double line. The hook was a long, blunt strip bent back 180 degrees which h…
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 6th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-62ED5B
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval cast copper alloy decorative strap mount. The mount has a rounded body; both rounded terminals appear to be in the form of a debased Lys. On the back are two bent attachment spikes.
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Monday 28th July 2014
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Record ID: SOM-625F92
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy bar mount. The mount is rectangular in plan, D-shaped in section with a shallowly convex front, flat back and bevelled ends. There are separate copper alloy rivets, one near each end. The rivets are circular in section, flush with the mount on the front and project slightly from the back. The mount is 14.1mm long, 5.9mm wide and 1.3mm thick excluding the rivet 2.9mm thick including them and weighs 0.61 grams. Egan and Pritchard (1991) illustrate a very similar example (page 211-212, pl.133, No.1138) from a context dated c.1270-1350. They suggest (ibid: 21…
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th August 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-621D53
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval cast copper alloy strap slide. The frame is pentagonal with a convex V shaped top bar with a rounded point in the centre. One side bar has been bent inwards and one pushed out at an angle. All the sides of the frame are rectangular in cross section but the top and bottom bars are slightly thicker. There is an integral rectangular sectioned rivet projecting outwards 3.7mm from the centre of the base, the end of which is not flattened. The frame now is 15.3mm wide, 17.9mm long including the rivet, 14.2mm excluding it and 2.9mm thick, it weighs 1.29 grams. Egan (2007) illustrat…
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Friday 16th March 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-60C379
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap fitting, possibly a buckle plate, of Medieval to Post-Medieval date. It is missing the frame end due to old breaks. The object is flat, square in form and undecorated. It has one large central circular perforation, with single separately cast copper-alloy rivets at each corner of the attachment end. The entire object measures 22.38mm in length, 18.67mm in width, 0.71mm in thickness and 1.94g in weight. Thsi is an incomplete strap fitting or bukckle plate. It is likely to date to the later Medieval or Post-Medieval periods, perhaps c.14th-16th cent…
Created on: Monday 28th July 2014
Last updated: Monday 28th July 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Glemham', grid reference and parish protected.