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Record ID: SF-6D9FD3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy medieval shield shaped strap end, dating to the period c. AD 1350-1400. Notched on each side of the plate with an angled inside edge. Two rivet holes, with no rivets surviving, one on the inside edge and one next to the bar mount. The simple bar mount is plain with a D-shaped section and is affixed with one central rivet. The rivet has a lozenge shaped rove on the back. Similar to Egan and Pritchard, Dress Accessories, page 157, no. 735
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 12th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lakenheath', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-6CF709
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy strap fitting of Roman date, c.50 BC - AD 200. The fitting comprises two pointed ovate - or teardrop - elements, joined at the rounded ends with the points facing away from one another. A central raised circular boss within a deep circumferential recess is present to the upper surface of each element and the pointed terminals have raised curved lenticular mouldings. An integral rectangular attachment loop is present to the reverse of the fitting, joining at the centre of each boss. The loop has a D-shaped section. The metal has a dark green patina and is …
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Monday 3rd December 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HESH-6A41B5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval copper-alloy bar mount (c. 1150-c. 1450). The mount is broadly oval in plan, domed at the front and concave at the rear (C shaped). A smaller domed projection is present at each end; these lobes have been pierced by a circular hole through the centre to hold a separate copper-alloy rivet. Both rivets are lost and one of the lobes is broken. The front the central body is decorated with five transverse (horizontal) incised grooves which have been incised vertically to give a cross-hatched appearance. The reverse is plain and undecorated; the surface is deeply incised…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'worfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-6A2153
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval copper-alloy bar mount (c. 1150-c. 1450). The mount is broadly oval in plan, domed at the front and concave at the rear (C shaped). A smaller domed projection is present at each end; these lobes have been pierced by a circular hole through the centre to hold a separate copper-alloy rivet. One rivet survives and has a domed head which projects above the surface of the mount. The front the central body is decorated with four transverse (horizontal) incised grooves which have been incised vertically to give a cross-hatched appearance. The reverse is plain and undecora…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 30th October 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'worfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BUC-692B48
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Post Medieval copper alloy belt mount or fitting, dating from c.17th century AD. The mount is sub triangular shaped curving up to a central ridge, and has a knop projecting from the narrowed end. At the wider edge there is a cinquefoil projection with a narrowed neck, this has a raised collar. On the surface of the face of the mount is gilding. On the reverse there are two integral attachment prongs which are worn and broken. The mount has a light brown patina. It measures 22.7mm in length, 11.00mm in width, and weighs 1.49g. Similar mounts can be seen in Read 2001, p…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Friday 23rd November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HESH-68E06A
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy openwork mount or hooked tag of Early Post Medieval date (AD 1550-1650). The mount is sub circular in plan, with a integrally cast projecting hook on one side. This hook is broken and all that remains is a rectangular tab of metal. The decoration on the front is pieced and consists of an integrally cast crescent moon, with a face present, looking towards a six pointed star. The hook element extends from the star. The back of the mount is plain and undecorated. The remains of two projecting hooks broken flush with the back plate are present. The mount is…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 27th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'worfield', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-6877F7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Strap End/Fitting of Medieval date (AD 1350-1450). The object is composed of a flat plate of copper alloy which is sub-rectangular in plan and flat in section. The attachment end of the plate has an intact edge with semi-circular perforation within the plate. The perforation is flanked but a perforating rivet. The plate tapers in slightly toward the terminating end which is irregular in plan due to an old abraded break. The underside of the plate retains a small section of a second plate which is affixed b one of the rivets. The upper side of the object is d…
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 28th November 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-67FFAC
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy Medieval strap-slide of trapezoidal form with internal projections and a simple, undecorated central knop at the top. Late 12th-late 14th century.
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
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Record ID: SUR-67E065
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper alloy Post Medieval strap fitting or strap slide. The remaining portion of the front plate is flat and bell shaped, with deeply moulded foliate and scrollwork decoration arranged symetrically around a central stem and which is topped, in the narrowest portion of the frame, by a trefoil. There is a single bent and broken projecting lug which once joined to another on the now lost portion of the object.
Created on: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 22nd November 2018
Spatial data recorded.