Record ID: SUR-6691D3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete subrectangular copper alloy plate from a composite medieval strap end, 41.5mm in length. The front end tapers to a blunt point with a rounded projecting knop at the tip. The rear end is incomplete. The front of the plate is undecorated.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-664681
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A subrectangular copper alloy plate from a composite medieval strap end, 54.1mm in length. The front end tapers to a blunt point. The rear end has bifurcating projections, each drilled for and retaining a rivet. The front of the plate is decorated with intertwining arcs of rocker-arm zig-zag decoration. The reverse of the plate is undecorated and retains traces of the (now lost) spacer plate around the edge.
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2024
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Record ID: SF-559DC7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) strap end of Thomas Class E, Type 1 dating to the period c. AD 1000 - 1100. It would have comprised of an open-work design, but all that remains is the attachment end. The attachment plate retains three entrally positioned rivet holes. The openwork tongue terminates in an old break and has two semi-circular holes. A more complete example can be found on PAS see SOM-F33A5F. Cf. Thomas, G, 2004, p. 3, no. 24. A similar example is illustrated in (Griffiths et al 2007; 64 no 334) where it was noted the design o…
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-54E330
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a copper-alloy strap-end of 9th Century date. All that remains is the zoomorphic 'mouse/bat' terminal which is broadly triangular in shape. It is worn, with the zoomorphic details not clearly visible.  Length: 16.99mm Width: 8.35mm Weight: 1.51g
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-4FAA39
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy forked spacer from a Medieval composite strap end, comprising a ring, 21.2mm in diameter, with a terminal projection in the form of an acorn and stumps of forked prongs projecting to the rear. Both flanking plates are missing. c. 14th century. As Egan and Pritchard (2002), p141.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: NLM-4F03A3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and leather strap end. Cast rounded split inner end of a strap end which tapered towards a narrowed and longitudinally slotted terminal with an oval inner end to its slot. The preserved fabric of a ?leather strap remains trapped in the split end. Up to three large [diameter 3mm] rivets may have attached the object to the strap. Suggested date: Post-Medieval, 1850-1900 Length: 31.2mm, Width: 19.9mm, Thickness (overall): 4.6mm, Weight: 7.65gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'near Market Rasen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NLM-4EA2ED
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end fragment. Cast acorn knop of elongated form, springing from the rounded end of the spacer plate from a strap end of composite construction. Suggested date: Late Medieval, 1350-1400 Length: 21.5mm, Width: 13.9mm, Thickness: 4.3mm, Weight: 1.46gms
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Calcethorpe', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3CF162
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy strap end of Medieval date. All that remains ins the cast front plate, which terminates in an old break. It has a lozenge shaped knop, and has a circular hole for a now missing rivet. Similar examples can be seen in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, pg 133, 614. Length: 29.44mm Width: 8.35mm Weight: 2.16g
Created on: Monday 8th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3CD940
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy strap end of Medieval date. It is a composite strap-end with a sheet spacer occupying the whole width, broadly rectangular in shape tapering in to terminate with a fleur de lis knop. One part of the plate is missing, the other is broken at the knop. The remaining plate has a hole for a now missing rivet a tthe terminal. Similar examples can be seen in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, pg 147, 703. Length: 50.67mm Width: 9.39mm Weight: 4.46g
Created on: Monday 8th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Finborough', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-3CAF4B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper-alloy strap end of Medieval date. It is a two piece rectangular strap-end made of sheet metal, with tapering sides terminating in a semi-circular knop.The sheet contains two integral rivets. Similar examples can be seen in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, pg 133, fig 86.  Length:22.80mm Width: 11.75mm Weight: 2.07g
Created on: Monday 8th April 2024
Last updated: Monday 8th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Combs', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-EA2E8F
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy strap-end of Medieval date. It is rectangular in shape, with three central holes for rivets, one of which is missing. There is evidence of gilding. The strap-end tapers at one terminal and contains a cut out before terminating in an old break. Length: 23.74mm Width: 15.42mm Weight: 1.08g
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Finborough', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-E9F946
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy strap-end of Medieval date. Rectangular in form, it has holes for 3 rivets, one of which is in situ. Two are parrallel, the third is slightly offcentre. It terminates in an old break, with the remains of two circular holes. There is evidence of gilding.  Length: 24.24mm Width: 12.84mm Weight: 1.54g
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF-E9BDC3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy forked spacer strap-end of Medieval date. All that remains is the spacer, with a collared acorn-type knop. Similar examples can be found in Egan and Pritchard, 2011, pg 144, fig 94, 680, 681.  Length: 38.54mm Width: 18.20mm Weight: 5.08g
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Debenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUR-566360
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy early medieval (Anglo Saxon) strap end (cf. Thomas Class A2h). The plate is narrow and oval, waisted to a flared rear end which is characteristically split but incomplete having  broken across the rivet holes on the edge. The front of the plate is decorated with cross hatching or lattice decoration within a linear border. The terminal is zoomorphic, although now too worn for much detail to be visible.
Created on: Thursday 28th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 28th March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-2DB2F2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and textile strap end. A pair of plates or a single plate folded lengthways with an ogival outer end and a rivet hole of diameter 1.6mm at its inner end, which was probably engrailed. A further rivet at the front end was only noted during image processing. Woven fabric, now of a buff tint, remains trapped between the plates. This might point to a later medieval date within the available range as sumptuary laws enacted following the Black Death, particularly the Statute of 1369, restricted the wearing of leather straps by the lesser sort. Suggested date: Medieval, 1250-1400…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 26th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Epworth', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-1AD18C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy strap end dating to circa AD 1400-1500. The piece consists of a broadly lozengiform terminal, the front face of which carries incised foliate decoration, and a crescentic plate. The piece would have been formed of two crescentic plates joined together, although only the front plate now survives. Projecting from the reverse are two circular rivets.  THe front face of the plate is decorated with an incised permiter border in the interior of which is incised decoration, seemingly following no discernible pattern or arrangement, consisting of hemisp…
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-1AB5F3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy spacer from a composite strap end datomg to circa AD 1270-1500. Rectangular-sectioned, the spacer is forked with two pointed prongs emerging from an openwork oval plate which terminatesl in an acordn shaped knop. Only one fork now survives. It tapers gently into a point. The other has broken away. Similar examples are depicted in Egan and Pritchard 2002: pg 141, pl 92. Length: 51.4mm; Width: 20.1mm; Thicknes: 2.1mm; Weight: 4.63g.
Created on: Monday 25th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
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Record ID: PUBLIC-EF148D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval cast copper-alloy composite circular strap-end dating to c.1250-1450. Consisting of two separate sub-circular plates with projecting rectangular attachment arms that terminate in breaks. Riveted together with two rivets that remain in place on either side of the plate. Decoration on one attachment arm with what appears to be a double scribed letter V. The surface displays an even green patina. Plate diameter 17.9mm, o/a length 25.3mm, thickness 2mm, weight 3.6g. Broadly similar examples on this database at: OXON-EA2C24, LEIC-3B5C78 and BUC-40B33D and…
Created on: Saturday 23rd March 2024
Last updated: Monday 25th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Sandwich', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: NMS-D60F63
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Medieval copper-alloy strap end dating circa AD 1200-1400. A one piece strap end, it is broadly trapezoidal in plan tapering from its widest extent at the attachment end into the terminal. Projecting from the terminal edge is a triangular knop. The plate has a split end and is undecorated on either face. Two rivet holes positioned centrally at the terminal and attachment end, remain in sity. Similar examples are depicted in Egan and Pritchard 2002: pg 144.  Length: 28.5mm; Width: 9mm; Thickness: 3.8mm; Weight: 3.05g.
Created on: Friday 22nd March 2024
Last updated: Friday 22nd March 2024
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Record ID: NMS-C2139C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval copper-alloy strap end dating to circa AD 1200-1400. Part of a composite strap end, the piece comprised of one plate. It is rectangular in plan with a shield shaped terminal from which projects an incomplete trefoil or triangular knop. Now heavily abraded and scarred, an intact separately made copper alloy rivet is positioned centrally towards the attachment end.  Similar examples are recorded in Egan and Pritchard 2002: 125-161. Length: 39.8mm; Width: 14.6mm; Thickness: 2.7mm; Weight: 8.61g.
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2024
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Record ID: NLM-ACBE4C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. Cast elongated oval zoomorphic strap end with a beast head terminal with drilled dots for nostrils and eyes and moulded nostrils, with a bordered panel of  incised vegetal ornament which ends in two short curls beyond which are a pair of rivets of diameter 2.5mm and length 3.1mm with burred ends which pass through the split inner or proximal end of the object; Thomas Class A Type 1 subtype possibly axvi. Suggested date: Early Medieval, 800-850 Length: 37.9mm, Width: 12.9mm, Thickness (overall): 2.3mm, Weight: 4.34gms
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Scotter', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-AC7A2D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early medieval copper alloy zoomorphic strap end of Anglo Scandinavian 'Urnes' style dating to c.AD 850-1100, most likely Thomas' Class G. The object is sub-rectangular in plan. One end is wedge-shaped with a split end, the other is a trapezoidal terminal containing a trapezoidal aperture. The object has a larger trapezoidal aperture towards the centre of the object. There is a central raised animal mask at the junction between the wedge-shaped attachment end and the central aperture. Between the two apertures is a raised design possibly forming part of the body or limb…
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: NARC-AC4E49
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Strap End of Early-Medieval (late Anglo-Saxon) date (AD 1000-1100). Thomas Class E, Type 1 (Winchester Style). The object consists of an openwork, lozenge-shaped plate, with a rectangular upper attachment plate with a single central circular perforation. The plate is composed of Winchester style openwork decoration in the form of a series of symmetrical fronds, emanating from a central stem which twist along the edges of the plate and end in inward curving lobed terminals. The lower rounded end is missing due to an old, abraded, transverse break. …
Created on: Wednesday 20th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 27th March 2024
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Record ID: LON-9A0EE1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Medieval copper-alloy strap-end dating from AD 1350 to 1450.  This is a composite strap end with forked spacer. The strap end has two outer plates sandwiching a forked spacer. The spacer has a decorative knop in the form of an acorn with a narrowed collar below where it joins to the integral arms of the spacer. Thre are three rivets spaced equidistant along the length ot the strap end and a concave attachment edge. Egan and Pritchard (1991:144), illustrate similar strap ends, Nos. 676-680 which date from the mid-14th-century to mid-15th centuries. Dimen…
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-97E267
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost complete late Anglo-Saxon strap-end of Thomas Class E, type 1, with openwork relief decoration on both faces. The terminal end is missing, yet symmetrical. The attachment end is rectangular, split to hold the strap, and retains the rusty remains of an iron rivet at either corner. The split end is separated from the body of the strap-end by a transverse ridge on both faces. The upper openwork decoration six small holes of similar size, there are a further two below of a larger size, the very end, as mentioned, is missing, it is likely a further two small holes would have formed …
Created on: Tuesday 19th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-839004
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of 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 a worn break at the attachment end. The zoomorphic terminal is in the form of a forward facing animal head; much of the surface is damaged or missing but the terminal appears to include raised rounded pellet eyes and a stub-nosed snout. The central panel bears a curvilinear design with interlinked zig-zags geometric features. The rever…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: SUR-838809
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval cast copper alloy strap end with openwork plates on both sides; one with a quatrefoil and one with an elongated heart shaped cutaway. The sides are comprised of a separate strip of metal, giving the strap end a hollow interior. The front end is rounded and the rear end is scalloped. There are three rivets holding the object together, two at the rear and one at the front.
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 20th March 2024
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Record ID: YORYM-82A41B
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. Possibly Thomas' Class A, Type 5. The strap end is sub-oval in shape with a pointed terminal at the closed end and a worn break at the end from which the split attachment plates would have extended. Only part of the lower plate survives. The pointed terminal is worn though bears traces of indistinct moulded decoration. The front of the main plate has a longitudinal recessed rectangular panel. The reverse is flat and undecorated. The metal has a dark mid-green patina and is worn. The strap end is 33.2mm…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUR-82847A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval copper alloy composite strap end. One whole plate, one partial plate and the spacer are retained; the plates are rectangular with a rounded terminal with a small projection. The spacer fills the front half of the object and is secured with a single rivet; the rear end is incomplete but had a decorative circular cutaway at the centre, with rivets to either side, one of which is retained. There is no decoration. Circa 14th-15th century.
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: ESS-81E632
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of a cast copper-alloy strap end (Thomas Class B, Type 1) of early medieval date (c.750-850). Description: The strap end remains as the tapering attachment end which terminates in three moulded ribs before a transverse break. The split attachment end is bilobed and has two attachment holes, now missing their rivets. The front plate has also broken away in parts around the holes. The fragment is undecorated. It has a medium green patina.  Measurements: length: 22.2mm; width: 11mm; thickness: 3.7mm; weight: 2.92g Discussion: It is not clear whe…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: ESS-81A5F6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper-alloy strap end (probably Thomas Class B, Type 5) of early medieval date (c.800-900). Description: The strap end is parallel sided, with a tapering, pointed terminal engraved with three grooves on the front only. It also has a groove running around the edge, seen in profile, possibly representing a partly open mouth. The attachment end is missing. The front has very worn, decoration in the form of engraved repeating crescent motifs either side of a central spine engraved with chevrons. The reverse of the strap end is flat and undecora…
Created on: Monday 18th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 18th March 2024
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Record ID: SF-4796A2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy Medieval strap end. Only the front plate survives. There is a scalloped attachement edge; holes for two rivets, of which one remains. It has a grooved aperture and flat lozenge knop (Egan and Pritchard, 1991, pg 142, plate 93, 665).  Length: 37.32mm Width: 14.73mm Weight: 2.22g
Created on: Friday 15th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Redgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NARC-310558
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper alloy Strap End of Medieval date (AD 1300-1450). The object is one plate from a composite strap end, which is rectangular in shape with an upper circular perforation, the lower end terminates in an old, abraded transverse break. The front of the object is decorated with an incised with a geometric motif composed of an outer linear boarder, within which are repeating triple lined chevrons on each side, with a double central line dividing. The back of the object is undecorated. Length: 18.95mm, Width: 11.77mm, Thickness: 2.05mm, Diameter (perforation): 2.71mm, Weig…
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 15th March 2024
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Record ID: SF-30907C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy strap end dating to the Medieval period. It is a tongue-shaped form, with a scalloped attachment edge; round grooved aperture; two rivets; tapering sides. Similar examples can be seen in Egan and Pritchard, 1991, pg 140, plate 93, 653.  Length: 27.46mm Width: 19.18mm Weight: 2.40g
Created on: Thursday 14th March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 14th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Polstead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-1BFB96
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A probable incomplete early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) copper-alloy strap end with a wedge shaped terminal end which is not split, but has two rivet holes, one through either corner with the remains of copper-alloy rivets within them. The shaft is incomplete and what remains is decorated with four transverse mouldings. Superficially this strap-end is of a similar form to the attachment end of a Thomas Class B type I, however, as the wedge shaped attachment end is not split it may have been created from the foot of a small long brooch (Thomas, 2003, pg4-5, fig2). Length: 25.85mm Widt…
Created on: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 13th March 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wickhambrook', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-06EB59
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap end. The strape end is made of two trapzoidal zones whose narrow parallel edges touch, the upper being much bigger than the lower so that it is similar to a butterfly or hourglass shape. The larger section is split into two to provide a slot for a strap to be placed within. It is also pierced by two circular holes which contain circular domed headed rivets. This section is decorated by three incised slightly diagonal and non-parallel lines running across its width. The reverse is plain and undecorated and plain barring one circular pit. The obj…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 9th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-06B522
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap end dating from the Early Medieval period, in the 9th century AD. Although in one piece, the strap end has two distinct parts: the strap attachment plate, and a long tapering shaft. The split-end strap attachment plate is trapezoidal in plan (being 13.4mm long and its width tapering from 9.6mm at the split end to 4.5mm where it joins to the shaft), and wedge-shaped in profile. Near its widest point is one rivet hole. The shaft is 27mm long, and in cross-section goes from circular at the tip, to sub-rectangular where it joins with the s…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-05913B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment from an Early-Medieval cast copper alloy strap-end, classified as Thomas's (2003, 2) Class A. This would date the artefact to around the 9th century AD. Only the zoomorphic terminal and a small section of the plate survives. The fragment begins with a diagonal break truncating a section with a rectangular panel likely displaying a chip carved zoomorphic design. Below this it narrows to a squared off terminal which has incised decoration creating a zoomorphic style terminal This includes large comma-shaped ears and a snout. The strap end has a medium gree…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: OXON-056503
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete Early-Medieval cast copper alloy strap-end, classified as Thomas's (2003, 2) Class A. This would date the artefact to around the 9th century AD.  The strap-end is flat in profile and sub-rectangular in plan with sides which widen and then narrow from its upper terminal in smooth convex (almsot crinoline) curves. It has an elongated narrow squared off zoomorphic terminal. The plate is split for c. one sixth of its length to provide a slot for a strap to be placed within. The upper terminal of this split end are pierced by two circular holes (c.1.0mm d…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Friday 5th April 2024
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lyneham CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WMID-03EBD6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Warwickshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A near complete copper alloy strap end of Early Medieval date (c. AD 900-1100), Thomas Class E, Type 1b (Winchester Style). The artefact comprises a tongue shaped plate with a near complete rectangular attachment plate immediately above. Two rivets (left and middle) are still present on the attachment plate, the third is missing, along with the right corner of the plate. The plate is composed of Winchester style decoration in high relief and in the form of a series of elongated tendrils or leaves in an irregular pattern. At the top of the p…
Created on: Tuesday 12th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 12th March 2024
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