Record ID: OXON-19ABBC
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval (late 13th to 15th centuries) composite strap end: The strap end is a sub-rectangle in plan with one end being rounded and the other having a scalloped edge. The strap end is made up of two copper alloy sheets both of each are decorated with an inscised design. One face has a standing figure, holding a vertical staff or long sword. The figure is wear a short garment. The second plate has an inscription which is difficult to read. The surface has small patches of red copper corrosion, and an incomplete mid grey-green patina. The plates are rivet together by a single copper all…
Created on: Monday 9th August 2021
Last updated: Tuesday 26th October 2021
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SOM-9C0791
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete probable Early Medieval or possibly Roman strap end. The object is 26.1mm long and fairly flat, tapering in thickness from 4.1mm to 1.1mm along its length. It comprises a sub-circular disc section of diameter 12.5mm that has extensions on two opposite sides. One extension is a small terminal, sub-triangular in plan, tapering from 3.6mm where it leaves the disc to a point c5mm from the disc, a slight indented line divides it from the oval part. The opposite extension widens slightly from 7.1mm where it leaves the disc to 7.8mm where it terminates irregularly in an ol…
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 25th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Odcombe CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-C74E24
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of an Early Medieval copper openwork alloy strap end dating to the 10th and 11th centuries. The piece is the middle part of the strap end with both the terminal and attachment end lost to old breaks. The strap end was tounge shaped with sides converging slightly towards the rounded terminal. It has an openwork pattern of a central stem from which splits symmetrical side branches which curve up and down to form the outer side before curving back in to the central stem. The ends of the branches are formed of oval lobed terminals. This leaves a regular series of holes to each side o…
Created on: Tuesday 8th October 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 4th February 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Milverton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-993EA7
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy strap-end of early-medieval date of Thomas Class B. The object is broadly rectangular and has a square zoomorphic terminal with rounded edges and corners that is sub-rectangular in cross section. This terminal is worn but has the remains of raised brow ridges with an indented channel between and raised circular nostrils at the lower corners. At the top of the terminal is a bend/crack where the piece has almost broken in two, this damage obscures any indication of the top of the terminal. From this terminal the sides of the object run parallel for app…
Created on: Tuesday 5th February 2019
Last updated: Monday 4th March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Chute Forest', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-30DE74
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy 'lyre shaped' strap end dating to the Medieval period (1375-1425). It consists of a box like upper and open work lower section, now mostly missing The body of the strap end is trapezoid in plan and rectangular in cross section. It is cast complete with front, back and sides all integral, the top is open. The front is decorated with incised lines probably forming a black letter M surrounded by a incised border. It appears to have once been gilded as a very small amount of gilding survives. The reverse is undecorated. At the open attachment end are tw…
Created on: Thursday 31st January 2019
Last updated: Thursday 7th February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Fitzhead', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-070722
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early-medieval cast copper alloy strap-end, classified as Thomas's (2003, 2) Class A, Type 2. This would date the artefact to around the 9th century AD. The strap-end is flat in profile and sub rectangular with slightly convex sides and squared off zoomorphic terminal. The plate narrows from a width of 10.56mm at the widest point to a width of 6.20mm at the base. The strap end is slit down the side creating a slit between the front and back for the upper third, this would have held the end of the strap. The top edge (attachment end) is formed of two lobes on the front and back…
Created on: Tuesday 29th January 2019
Last updated: Monday 15th March 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Misterton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-02DA02
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy medieval item, probably a strap end, or possibly a buckle plate dating from the 13th to 15th century. It is probably part of a composite strap end with spacer. The remaining part is a single sheet representing the front of the strap end. The strap end is sub-rectangular in shape and tapers towards the end, suggesting a pointed or rounded end. The strap end had two rivets attached, one at the centre near the top, the other centred near the bottom; both are now missing. The top of the strap end from a transverse line through the centre of the top rivet hole i…
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th March 2018
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Record ID: DOR-764B4D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: The attachment end of a silver-gilt strap end of later Medieval date with zoomorphic decoration. The strap end is trapezoid in shape, narrowing towards the broken terminal and rectangular in cross section. It is box like, formed of separate front and back plates and side strips with an open rectangular centre. At the complete end are two separate silver rivets, roved over flush with the front and back. There are extensive remains of gilding on the otherwise plain sides and back. The front is decorated with a panel filling the remaining area apart from a plain border wh…
Created on: Saturday 1st July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 21st March 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tarrant Crawford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SOM-47ACAA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper alloy composite strap end. The strap end consists of a front and a back plate once riveted together and originally soldered to and covering the forked spacer. In form it has a rectangular upper section (adjacent to the end where it was attached to the strap) and a circular lower part with a terminal projecting at the bottom. Of the two plates, one is complete with two separate rivets still held in place through holes int he corners at the attachment end, the other is missing small parts of both corners at the attachment end where the holes for the rivets are. The plate…
Created on: Wednesday 18th February 2015
Last updated: Thursday 19th February 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Knoyle CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-01FED0
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete copper-alloy strap-end of Medieval date. The piece represents the projecting end from a socketed strap-end. It is of thin section, flat on the underside, and takes the form of three equal-sized discs, arranged in an inverted-sub-triangular formation. The surface of each of these discs is concave and has been incised with a number of parallel, angled grooves, probably designed to catch the light. This effect would have been enhanced by the addition of a now-corroded white metal coating. At the top of the piece is a remnant of the short arm that would have joined this pr…
Created on: Wednesday 23rd January 2013
Last updated: Friday 1st February 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thaxted', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-6DB182
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded and damaged early-medieval cast copper-alloy strap-end, classified as Thomas' (2003, 2) Class A, Type 2. This would date the artefact to around the ninth century. The strap-end has a flat, rectangular cross-section and sub-oval in form. It is curved in profile as a result of old damage. The split attachment end is rounded through abrasions. Its upper fold has been all but lost and the lower fold is so abraded that the usual pair of rivet holes cannot be discerned. The artefact tapers gradually towards the terminal which is more pointed, but still rounded at the tip. The zoo…
Created on: Monday 30th January 2012
Last updated: Saturday 29th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-056E08
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded cast copper-alloy medieval strap-end made of a single strip folded in half widthways. In shape it is a simple rectangular with rounded corners, some of the rounding may be from wear. There is a single rivet which appears to be cast integrally with the front and then roughly hammered flat after going through the strap and a hole in the back-plate. The flattened end of the rivet is sub square. The strip is notably thick (Th.: c. 1.9mm); this has helped result in a fracture to one side of the fold that extends up one face. The strap-end seems to have been squeezed together j…
Created on: Wednesday 25th January 2012
Last updated: Thursday 26th January 2012
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: HAMP-D129D8
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy thick sheet fragment probably from a medieval strap-end (c. 14th century AD). The fragment is sub-square and flat. It is abraded on all sides, but comparison with published strap-ends suggests that it survives almost complete in width, but with significant longitudinal losses above and below. The upper surface of the sheet plate is decorated with incised lines. A central pair of longitudinal lines has incised diagonals running between them at roughly equal intervals. Either side are diverging diagonals forming trapezoidal zones; above and below would have been triangles…
Created on: Monday 6th June 2011
Last updated: Thursday 9th June 2011
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Record ID: SUSS-D37508
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Early Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) cast copper-alloy strap-end, dating from the 9th century. This is an example of a Thomas Class A strap-end, with a split end, outward bowing sides, and probably a zoomorphic terminal, which has subsequently been lost, along with some of the tapering strap-end body (cf. Thomas 2003, Datasheet 32). The split end has a central notch which creates a bi-lobed edge. Two silvered circular rivets fit at the split end, one in each lobe. On the front surface there is a series of six panels, and possibly a portion of a seventh at the base of the brok…
Created on: Sunday 13th March 2011
Last updated: Friday 7th June 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lancing', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-3CC050
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Somerset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Medieval (1400-1450) copper alloy composite crescentic strap end with trefoil projection, missing its backplate. It measures 42.85x29.53x2.95mm and weighs 8.7g. The cast upper plate is crescental with remains of iron rivets at the points where the crescent ends join to form a circle. In shape the plate is roughly D-shaped with a wide outer edge, much narrower edge, and oval opening 13.46x15.68mm. To the reverse it is hollowed with a c.1.5mm wide rim running around much of the edge (but not the narrowed edge or the trefoil projection). Two further rivets are still in si…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd February 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 5th July 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SUSS-360447
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Two copper alloy rings, formed of a double loop of square sectioned wire the ends and middle of which are attached to each other and to the top of a knop. The knop has a circular top to which the wire is attached below which is a constriction then a oval terminal. Both the loops and terminal are complete with no breaks suggesting it was suspended from another obect through the loops. It is 20.1mm long, 16.6mm wide and the wire is 1.2mm thick; it weighs 1.06 grams. It is unclear what this is from. The finder has suggested a parallel with a wire looped terminal on a Medieval …
Created on: Friday 17th September 2010
Last updated: Friday 17th September 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Winchester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SUSS-262AB1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: West Sussex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy strap end made of a single strip folded in half widthways at the end. In shape it is a simple rectangular with rounded corners, some of the rounding may be from wear. There is a single rivet which appears to be cast integrally with the front and then roughly hammered flat after going through the strap and a hole in the back plate. The strap end is highly corroded obscuring any decoration but there are traces of gilding. While strap ends made of a piece folded widthways are known from the Medieval period the use of an integral, crude rivet is unusual. It is…
Created on: Friday 11th June 2010
Last updated: Saturday 12th June 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Near Chichester', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-337B26
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and damaged spacer plate from a medieval composite strap-end with stylised collared acorn knop terminal cast in copper alloy. The collared acorn knop (10.55 long) is relatively well rendered with nut and fruit moulded. One of the prongs is vestigial following an old break. The other has been bent upwards and then back on itself.  The plates are now missing; the spacer is recessed for them above the terminal. This area has been filed diagonally to aid adhesion. Similar strap-ends can be found illustrated in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 144; fig. 94) and date to the 14th or …
Created on: Monday 12th April 2010
Last updated: Monday 12th April 2010
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amport CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-30A305
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded cast copper-alloy openwork strap-end of early-medieval date (Thomas Class E, probably Type 1). The object is sub-rectangular with a thin attachment end (Th.: 2.35mm), recessed to one side. The attachment end has been abraded at the corners and bent slightly as well. It bears a pair of rivet holes around the centre. Below this end the object continues at the same width, with wavy sides. The terminal is bifid. The field is divided symmetrically along the longitudinal axis. It is probably best described as a possible inhabited plant scroll in the Winchester style, although it …
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2010
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NARC-CCD1C1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy strap end. Two sheets of copper alloy held together at one end by a rivet, with another rivet at the opposite end to hold the leather strap in place. The open end is flat. The closed end is rounded slightly with a raised bump in the middle. This strap end is of Medieval date. Similar can be found in Egan, Dress Accessories, page 142-147.
Created on: Wednesday 7th October 2009
Last updated: Sunday 30th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Northamptonshire', grid reference and parish protected.