Record ID: LEIC-9E82B3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper alloy strap end, 30mm long, 9mm wide and 5mm thick with a weight of 3.20g. The object is sub rectangular in form and cross section. It consists of a flat triangular shaped plate which has a flat upper edge with a large, centrally placed, circular hole just below. Halfway down this plate there is a step across the object at an angle, suggesting this is an old break and would have formed a second triangular plate to hold the belt/strap. The rest of the object has a semi-circular cross section and a sub triangular shape forming an animal head…
Created on: Wednesday 19th June 2019
Last updated: Wednesday 19th June 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-8F12A6
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval or Medieval copper alloy strap end, 28mm in length, 10mm wide, 5mm thick with a weight of 3.67g. The object is sub rectangular in form and cross section. It is formed of two plates joined at one end. It is largely rectangular in form with tapering sides, but the short joined end has a concave semi-circular form, which appears complete, but may be a worn break and once extended out into a full circle? The object is decorated on one face with a double incised border. The area inside is very worn, but may be an interlace creature inside or at least it has traces o…
Created on: Tuesday 18th June 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 9th July 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-4566AB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy strap end, c. 39mm long and 8mm wide, with a weight of 1.48g. The object is sub rectangular in form and rectangular in cross section. It has a slightly damaged upper edge, which should be straight. Here it has a rectangular recessed 'back' plate, c 8 x 6mm, which would have had a correspoding one at the front to hold the strap. Below this point the object has bowed sides and is decorated for two thirds of its length with an interlace design in a raised linear border (the upper edge is missing) . Below this are two rectangular incised borders housing a…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 8th November 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-07ED69
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy strap end, 39mm long, 17mm wide and 2mm thick with a weight of 8.40g. The object is sub rectangular in form and rectangular in cross section, it is a 'tongue' shaped type which is plain except for a rectangular cross sectioned vertical ridge running down its centre, which is decorated with incised 'saltaire' crosses. It has a recessed rectangular upper front edge which houses three iron rivets, arranged in a horizontal row. Around this area both surfaces have iron staining and towards the rounded base on the front there is a patch of silvering on the lef…
Created on: Monday 5th November 2018
Last updated: Thursday 24th January 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-933E7E
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy strap end, 50mm long, 8mm wide and 3mm thick with a weight of 5.26g. The object is rectangular in form and cross section. Its upper half has a spilt end to house the strap and this is damaged. Below that the object has slightly rounded sides and it then tapers in width and becomes thicker, terminating in a possible animal head terminal? this is now extremely worn. The object is probably a Thomas class B1 or B2.
Created on: Thursday 7th June 2018
Last updated: Friday 8th June 2018
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Record ID: LEIC-2C563E
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval copper alloy silver plated strap end, 42mm long, 12mm wide and 2mm thick with a weight of 3.92grams. The object is sub rectangular in form and rectangular in cross section. It has a triangular shaped terminal with moulded decoration in the form of an animal head, with shallow depressions on the side locating the eyes. Above this the objects sides bow outwards and there is a central linear depression running up the centre for 6mm. These possibly represent enlarged ears? but any remaining decoration is obscured by a rectangular silver plate which has been attached with…
Created on: Tuesday 13th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th April 2019
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Record ID: LEIC-C12B76
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy strap end, 800-1000AD. Length: 55 mm, width: 12 mm, thickness: 2 mm, weight: 5.75 grams The object is sub rectangular inform and rectangular in cross section, with bowed sides. It has a split upper end with teow rounded projections, each of which houses an iron rivet, below and in between these is a further iron rivet, suggesting a repair. The object is decorated on one side with an interlaced design, suggesting two interwined beasts, contained in an incised border. Below this at the terminal is an incised animal head motif on a slightly raised area.…
Created on: Tuesday 22nd August 2017
Last updated: Thursday 7th September 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-F43712
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval lead alloy strap end, Length: 30 mm, width: 20 mm, weight: 14.23 grams. The object is missing its lower portion and i srectangular in form and cross section. On one side it has a flat rectangular upper area, c12mm high, which contains an iron rivet in each top corner. Its upper edge has been split into two sheets to secure the belt. Below this there is a rectangular area of decoration, contained by a narrow raised border. This consists of a slight central linear ridge from which 3 pairs of sub oval forms project. The strap end fits Thomas' Class E Type 1, Winchest…
Created on: Wednesday 19th July 2017
Last updated: Thursday 3rd August 2017
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Record ID: LEIC-B28EEF
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval lead alloy strap end, length: 26 mm, width: 17 mm, thickness: 5 mm, weight: 10.10 g. The object is tongue shaped, with a rounded lower edge, and this form fits Thomas class E. The decoration is harder to classify and seems to consist of three crude animal heads, although this could be a result of extreme wear. The decoration appears to show three rounded relief faces, arranged in a triangle, with possible limbs under the lower left example. flanking the uppermost central 'face' is a rounded relief motif. The upper flat part of the object has a recessed rectangular plat…
Created on: Thursday 3rd November 2016
Last updated: Monday 5th December 2016
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Record ID: LEIC-B26111
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early medieval copper alloy strap end, length: 44 mm, width: 9 mm, thickness: 2 mm, weight: 3.4 g. The object is complete but very worn. It has a sub rectangular form with a rounded upper edge and tapering sides which terminate in a probable zoomorpic head. There is no sign of any surface decoration and the reverse contains two circular cross sectioned rivet like prongs.
Created on: Thursday 3rd November 2016
Last updated: Monday 21st May 2018
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