Record ID: SUR-FAD33B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Anglo-Scandinavian cast copper strap-end (cf. Thomas Class E, Type 4) made from a single plate of cast copper alloy. The rear end has broken off. The body of the object is tongue-shaped and decorated with a complex double-stranded insular Borre style ‘vertebral ring-chain’ interlace motif. The reverse is undecorated. 
Created on: Wednesday 17th April 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 17th April 2024
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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: SUR-EF5158
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy zoomorphic strap end dating to the Early Medieval period (c. AD 800-1100), of Thomas class B type 1. The strap end is triangular and bent in the middle. It has a moulded zoomorphic terminal with a transverse incised line collar and three dot-in-annulets behind running to the rear of the plate. The rear end is split with two rivet holes, one retaining traces of an iron rivet. There is a pierced hole to the rear of the terminal, slightly offset to one side, the function of which is unclear.
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-EF0287
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete and badly corroded medieval strap end. Only one plate remains, this is fragmentary and incomplete. It has a rounded terminal and a narrow, tapering sub rectangular plate with a decorative trefoil rear end and a single rivet hole at the centre of the rear end retaining a copper alloy rivet. The facing side has an incised zoomorphic motif with a lion's head contained in the rounded terminal, this has details of a lenticular eye and the outline of open jaws still visible although most of the detail is lost to corrosion. Behind this the neck has a incised dashes…
Created on: Monday 11th March 2024
Last updated: Monday 11th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-703BF2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval copper alloy composite strap end. Both plates and the spacer are retained; the plates are rectangular with a small projection on the terminal and a single rivet retained at the centre of the rear edge. There is no decoration. Circa 14th-15th century.
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 5th March 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0E156C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Milton Keynes
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval two part strap end with a narrowed terminal (from the upper plate) which has two flanking pairs of small projections. The front is decorated with intertwined lines of rocker-arm zig-zag decoration which encompass small stars. The rear plate is shorter and undecorated. The rear end is concave with forked sides and a cusped inner edge. There is a single copper alloy rivet at the centre.
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Monday 5th February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-0B4B3C
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete early Medieval (Anglo Saxon) copper-alloy strap end of Thomas' Class A, Type 2. The plate is narrow and oval, expanding from the rear edge to a maximum width of 9mm before narrowing into a pointed zoomorphic terminal. The rear edge is split and incomplete having lost the facing side and the rear end, which has broken across a pair of rivet holes. The terminal has a well defined beast head, with concave sides to the snout and a well defined brow and long rounded ears behind.
Created on: Monday 5th February 2024
Last updated: Wednesday 21st February 2024
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Record ID: SUR-926E60
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy zoomorphic strap end dating to the Early Medieval period (c. AD 800-1100), of Thomas class B type 1. The strap end is 41mm in length and has a triangular split end with a bilobed rear edge and two rivet holes infilled with the remains of rusted iron rivets. The terminal is in the form of a stylised animal head with simple moulded features with a transverse ridged collar behind. There is a second transverse ridged collar at the point where the rear end expands. The strap end has a flat reverse giving it a plano- convex cross section at the front and a …
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2024
Last updated: Tuesday 30th January 2024
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Record ID: SUR-07835B
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete plate from a medieval strap end of composite type. The front end is lost; the rear end is slightly concave with a single decorative hole at the mid point, flanked by a pair of copper alloy rivets in the pointed corners. The surface has traces of tinning but there is no other decoration. 
Created on: Friday 24th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-DDDA4D
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Surrey
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete plate from a medieval strap end of composite type. The front end is lost; the rear end is concave with a single decorative hole at the mid point, flanked by a pair of copper alloy rivets in the pointed corners. There is no other decoration. The reverse has a surface scar from a forked spacer plate.
Created on: Wednesday 22nd November 2023
Last updated: Friday 24th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-742118
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A cast copper alloy forked spacer from a Medieval composite strap end, comprising a ring, 18.7mm in diameter, with a terminal projection in the form of an acorn and forked prongs projecting to the rear. Both flanking plates are missing. c. 14th century. As Egan and Pritchard (2002), p141.
Created on: Friday 17th November 2023
Last updated: Friday 17th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-4B08FA
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy strap end with a plate 37.8mm long, missing its tip. The front is decorated with incised geometric motifs comprising a central line with oblique lines to either side which define two rows of trapezoidal fields; these alternately filled with rocker-arm style zig zags or left plain. At the rear end is a feathered motif around a single rivet hole in the rear edge. This retains a copper alloy rivet and, on the reverse, a fragment of a rear plate.
Created on: Wednesday 15th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-36BE38
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper alloy plate from a small medieval strap end, 15.1mm in length. There are two rivet holes on the rear edge. The plate has no decoration aside from small flanking notches on the front end.
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 15th November 2023
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Record ID: SUR-912AED
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper alloy composite strap end. Only the forked spacer and one plate remain, held together by a single central rivet at the terminal end, which is rounded with a small pointed knop at the centre. The forks on the spacer plate appear to have been cut to shape. 
Created on: Wednesday 25th October 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 25th October 2023
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Record ID: SUR-17AA22
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A triangular copper alloy object, 56mm in length, probably a strap end. The object is flat in cross section, with an S-shaped bend in its profile. One end tapers to a long point, the other is square with a single rivet at the centre and a slight step in the margin of both long edges. There is no decoration but the surface has traces of tinning evident on the facing side around the rivet hole.
Created on: Monday 25th September 2023
Last updated: Monday 25th September 2023
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