Record ID: NCL-C53CC3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy strap end of the Medieval period, probably 11th-12th centuries. The strap end has a flat plate with two rivet holes. The attachment plate is defined from the main, decorative part of the strap end by a thick band across its width. The main plate of the strap end is highly decorated, with 8 perforations forming a rough circle around an openwork logenziform hollow with an openwork cruciform over it. The top of the cruciform and corners of the main playe are decorated with punched ring and dot. The setting may have taken enamel or a glass gem. The pointed termin…
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2007
Last updated: Thursday 21st April 2016
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Record ID: DENO-083C15
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early-Medieval copper-alloy strap-end, now incomplete. Sub-rectangular with pointed upper edge; central openwork lozenge with two perforations within each quarter (those on the left are not pierced through); inwards pointing free-standing projection from each corner; lozenge surrounded by eight circular perforations; a forwards-projecting knop at each of the upper corners; transverse ridge towards the bottom of the mount with a, now damaged, plate below (this was probably originally perforated); no trace of flange. Original surface gone; red-brown exposed surface with some light green…
Created on: Friday 17th July 2009
Last updated: Monday 21st May 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Long Whatton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LEIC-982247
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Leicestershire
Workflow stage: Published
Early medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper alloy strap end, 37mm long, 21mm wide and 5mm thick. The object is in fair condition and weighs 8.55 grams. The object is rectangular in form with an upper edge that terminates in a point, which appears to form an animal head? Its lower edge is marked by a plain raised band along its front and a possible scar from a break on the back. This suggests it had a plate or flange protruding from it. The object is decorated with a sub-circular dome which is flanked by eight circular holes, four arranged on the upper half and four around the lower ha…
Created on: Thursday 28th October 2010
Last updated: Monday 25th April 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: LANCUM-2409F1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Lancashire
Workflow stage: Published
Late Early Medieval to Early Medieval copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas's Class E, now corroded and incomplete. It is roughly sub-rectangular, with one end terminating in an incurved edge to either side, meeting at a rounded point. The other end (the attachment end) is flat and now broken across two small rivet holes. A transverse ridge decorated with four drilled dots (perhaps originally ring-and-dot motifs) separates the attachment end from the main body of the strap-end. The main plate is decorated with eight circular perforations set in a rough circle. When held with the attachment…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2014
Last updated: Thursday 21st April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lytham', grid reference and parish protected.