Record ID: NLM-DED022
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lead strap end. Fragment of a broad Viking lead strap end, Thomas Class E. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1000 Length: 21.5mm, Width: 16.6mm, Thickness: 3.0mm, Weight: 6.28gms
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2023
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Record ID: NLM-DD1F31
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. Fragment of a broad Viking strapend, Anglo-Scandinavian, dots and lines, probably Thomas Class E. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 900-1000 Length: 25.7mm, Width: 18.9mm, Thickness: 4.2mm, Weight: 5.26gms
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2023
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Record ID: NLM-DC6942
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. Very narrow plain strap end, assembled. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1350 Length: 24.3mm, Width: 7.5mm, Thickness: 2.9mm, Weight: 1.34gms
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Monday 4th December 2023
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Record ID: SWYOR-DB02FD
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap end of Early Medieval date, Thomas class E3, dating from AD 900-1100. The strap end is tongue-shaped (sub-rectangular with a pointed end), with a straight upper edge which splits to accommodate the strap. There are the remains of two copper alloy rivets through the split part. A raised double longitudinal ridge runs down the centre of the front. The front face is also covered with stamped ring and dot motifs. the back is plain. The strap end is 31.1mm long, 15.7mm wide and 4.7mm thick. It weighs 7.64g. It has a grey patina.
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 25th February 2024
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Record ID: SWYOR-DAF59C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy strap end of Thomas class A, type 1, dating from the Early Medieval date, about  AD 750 - 950. It is zoomorphic, with an animal head terminal. In plan, it is sub-rectangular, square at the attachment end and tapering to the terminal at the outer end. The front face is decorated with a moulded design consisting of a simple palmette above a sub-rectangular cartouche. The panels contains Trewhiddle style backward facing quadruped. It was probably inlaid with niello, but none survives. There is also a row of billeting along each side of the main body. The…
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 25th February 2024
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Record ID: NLM-DA5417
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. Short wide strap end, lower end barrel shaped. Rob Webley kindly comments as follows: 'Ashley and Rogerson have recently suggested a 12th-century date for this strap-end type: https://finds.org.uk/database/publications/publication/id/5269'. Suggested date: Medieval, 1100-1200 Length: 24.1mm, Width: 28.6mm, Thickness: 6.9mm, Weight: 11.88gms
Created on: Monday 4th December 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 6th December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C97EF1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two medieval sheet copper alloy “shield shaped” strap-ends, both with bar-mounts of arched cross-section and with two rivets (one in both with a rectangular rove), c.1270 - c.1450 (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 156-8): - rounded inside edge, small notch in sides, 11.8 x 7.5mm. bar-mount 3.8 x 7.3mm, weight 0.47g. - in abraded condition, sides and inside edge damaged, original form uncertain, c.12 x c.8.5mm, bar-mount 4.2 x 8.6mm, weight 0.65g.
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C94321
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval tongue-shaped strap-end with a lozengiform knop, formed from two copper alloy sheet plates secured by a rivet near both edges. Decayed leather, now c.1mm thick, extends between the plates for 10mm from the attachment edge. Below this the plates are in direct contact. Weight 1.52g. Length 23.5mm. Width 8.2mm. 14th century. 
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-C9094A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Front sheet copper alloy plate of a medieval strap composite strap-end of sub-circular form with a grooved round aperture between two rivet holes (one retaining a rivet) at the attachment edge, and a third hole, also with a rivet, near the straight outside edge (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 140-1). Weight 2.47g. Length 21.5mm. Width 26mm. 14th century. 
Created on: Sunday 3rd December 2023
Last updated: Sunday 3rd December 2023
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Record ID: NMS-B55FE3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Worn fragment of a Middle Saxon to Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end of Thomas 2003 Class A, Type uncertain, the attachment edge with two rivet holes (one incomplete). Most of the rear of the split end is missing. On the front there are faint signs of a fan-shaped field. The breaks are not recent. Weight 1.16g. Extant length 13.2mm. Width 14mm. 9th century.
Created on: Saturday 2nd December 2023
Last updated: Saturday 2nd December 2023
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Record ID: LEIC-9D8485
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper-alloy forked spacer for a composite strap end, dating to AD 1250-1450. The forked element is flat and rectangular in plan and consists of two prongs, stepped on the inside. The spacer has an elaborate tiered knop terminal with three rectangular collars dividing a rounded knop from the forked element.  Length: 32.1 mm Width: 11.8 mm Thickness: 4 mm Weight: 2.6 g
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 16th January 2024
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Record ID: OXON-9CEEA3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Medieval hooked strap end dating to the period AD 1150-1500. The strap end is subrectangular in shape, the two longest sides are slightly angled towards each other and end in curved shoulders which terminate in a small central semicircular knop. Opposite this, the other shorter side is straight but has two notches cut into it creating an uneven shallow "W" shape.  This would have formed part of a sword belt hanger, The body of the mount is plain and undecorated. On the reverse there are the remains o…
Created on: Friday 1st December 2023
Last updated: Friday 1st December 2023
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Record ID: ESS-767965
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An almost complete cast copper-alloy strap end (Thomas Class A, Type 1, Subtype a) of early medieval date (c.800-900). Description: The strap end is sub-rectangular in plan with a transverse attachment end and curved sides which taper to a moulded zoomorphic terminal. The animal head terminal has a moulded ears, circular around the edges and triangular within, a moulded double ridged brow above two circular engraved eyes, and a moulded snout, concave at the sides and flat at the end. The attachment end of the upper plate is engraved with an uncl…
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th December 2023
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Record ID: NCL-74F046
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northumberland
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Early Medieval strap end, of Thomas Class A Type 2, c. 750-900 AD.  The strap-end is flat in profile and sub-rectangular in plan with sides which widen and then narrow from its upper terminal into smooth convex curves. The terminal is irregularly broken. The plate is split to approximately one quarter of its length, and both rivet holes are broken. The upper plate is decorated with an interlace (possibly zoomorphic) design which is worn in places. The reverse is undecorated. The artefact has a mostly green powdery patina with patches of brown …
Created on: Wednesday 29th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 18th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-60075B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Distorted outer sheet copper alloy plate from a medieval composite tongue-shaped strap-end with two rivet holes, one near the the trefoil knop retaining a rivet and the other near the straight attachment edge. The sides are straight and taper towards the outside edge. Weight 2.25g. Length 38mm. Width 13.5mm. 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 28th November 2023
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Record ID: YORYM-5D162C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy strap end of Early-Medieval date, c.AD 750 - 950. The strap end is of Thomas' Class A, Type 2 with patterned decoration. The strap end is broadly triangular with a pointed terminal at the closed end and an incomplete attachment at the other. One side of the attachment with two rivet holes remains while the other side is lost. The zoomorphic terminal is in the form of a forward facing animal head with raised rounded pellet eyes and a stub-nosed snout. Circular cells with internal inverted Y-shapes may represent ears. The central panel bears a cu…
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 8th December 2023
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Record ID: LIN-5BBE50
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval copper alloy strap end dating to the 13th-15th century. The strap end is composite, consisting of a forked spacer with a sheet plate to either side. The plates are held by a copper alloy rivet at either end. The terminal is pinched. 
Created on: Tuesday 28th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 30th November 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Caistor area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-4E3262
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper-alloy strap end, dating to the Medieval period (c.AD 1250-1400). Description: The object is a composite strap end, formed of three metal plates sandwiched together and held in place by a rivet in each end.   The main section of the object is rectangular in plan and slightly tapers towards the terminal end. A single, circular rivet hole is located in the centre of the top edge of the front plate; the rivet remains in situ on the back plate.  At the base of the rectangular section the neck is recessed before expanding into a sub-square terminal. I…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
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Record ID: SF-4923C9
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval strap end. The object is roughly trapezoidal in shape, each face becoming narrower towards the lower end before flaring outwards very slightly and with sub-triangular sides that also becoming narrower towards the lower end. The upper, widest end is open, forming a socket where the strap would have been accommodated originally. A circular attachment hole can be seen to either upper corner of the outer face, both covered with iron corrosion. Traces of what might be a black-letter inscription can be seen in the centre of the outer face - a design c…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Thursday 7th December 2023
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ashfield cum Thorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-46579B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from an early medieval (late Anglo-Saxon) strap end. The fragment comes from the upper end of the object where the strap would have been accommodated originally. It is trapzoidal in shape - slightly wider at its upper end and becoming narrower towards an abrupt, straight break across its lower end. One side is damaged, but the other has a small knop projecting from its centre. In profile the upper half of the fragment is bifurcated with the rear section of this now missing. A copper-alloy rivet remains in situ through each corner of the upper end. The outer surface…
Created on: Monday 27th November 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Troston', grid reference and parish protected.