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Record ID: NMS-976E20
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Short medieval tinned copper alloy composite tongue-shaped strap end with a full-width spacer, front and back plates. Single rivet at the concave attachment-end and another at the terminal above the concave-sided pointed knop. The face has a short engraved median line. A scrap of cloth survives between the plates. Length 18.5mm. Width 14.5mm. Length of spacer 10mm. 14th century.
Created on: Monday 29th September 2014
Last updated: Sunday 17th September 2023
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Record ID: SUR-970F39
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Published
An incomplete cast silver-strap-end, partially gilded and with niello inlay. The fragment comprises the terminal of the strap-end, totalling approximately one-third to one-half of the original object. At the opposite end is a jagged transverse break, but otherwise the strap-end is well-preserved and of fine quality. The strap-end is decorated on both faces. One face features Winchester-style decoration cast in high relief. The surviving part of the design comprises a pair of sinuous beasts in profile, flanking a central foliate stem with branching tendrils. The central stem ends in a …
Created on: Monday 29th September 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd January 2024
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Record ID: SF-96DE92
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A very worn cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval/Anglo-Saxon strap end of Thomas Class A. It is sub-oval in form with convex sides that taper to a stylised zoomorphic terminal. The attachment end has a split terminal with central triangular notch either side of which are single circular rivet holes that hold in place separately cast copepr-alloy rivets with flattened heads. At the base is a stylised animal head terminal with large sub-oval ears, projecting brow and tapering, flattened snout. Any additional decorative elements are obscured due to the preservation of the object. It measures…
Created on: Monday 29th September 2014
Last updated: Thursday 25th August 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Bury St Edmunds', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-94E63E
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A copper alloy strap end of Early Medieval or Medieval date. The strap end is broadly rectangular in plan with an open upper end and a rounded lower terminal. It is formed of a single outer sheet of thick copper alloy with a central void to accomodate the strap (not surviving). The front bears moulded decoration forming foliate designs. A raised moulded central motif, possible a leaf or animal head is situated in the centre. Between the foliate designs, deeps cells are present, four of which are filled with a blue glass or enamel. Traces of gilding are present in the other cells, sugg…
Created on: Monday 29th September 2014
Last updated: Friday 29th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Marlborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-92A912
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle Saxon to Late Saxon Strap-end, with breakon split attachment-end, rounded with central notch between remains of twin perforations, one missing, the other with silver rivet, remains of three alternating triangular panels of niello inlaid with scrolling silver wire, above incised convex-sided ears and vertical median sub-triangular upper extension to a lozengiform panel with niello inlaid with scrolling silver wire between concave sides of snout, remains of small niello and wire panel at damaged terminal. Surviving length 44.5mm. Width 27.5mm. Weighs 11.44g. Thomas's Class A, Typ…
Created on: Monday 29th September 2014
Last updated: Monday 4th July 2016
Spatial data recorded.