Record ID: NMS-EC471B
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Part of a medieval gilded copper-alloy strap fitting, probably from horse-harness. It consists of a single rectangular plate, 9mm wide and 2.5mm thick, slightly rounded on the front and flat on the reverse, with half of a rounded loop at one end which appears to have worn through. The plate has two circular rivet holes through it, one at either end. The object is very corroded, but the angle between plate and loop has preserved some surface, and there is a little around the upper rivet hole, and some on the reverse too. There are traces of gilding around the rivet hole. …
Created on: Wednesday 11th January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 19th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-583EA6
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Enamelled copper-alloy circular mount or strap fitting. It is roughly 22mm in diameter and 2.7mm thick, but has a bar on the flat reverse which measures 3.75mm wide, with a broken stub projecting towards the rear at each end, suggesting that there may originally have been a rectangular strap loop on the reverse. This bar is very slightly longer than the diameter, bringing the width up to 24.3mm. The front is slightly convex, and has the remains of enamel decoration; there is a blue background around a five-lobed shape or five-petalled flower. The flower has lost its enamel, leaving a …
Created on: Monday 17th January 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-74C3D7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Hollow plate from a copper-alloy buckle or strap-end. It appears to have been cast with sides, front and back all in one piece, with a single circular rivet hole piercing both front and back in the centre of the open end. The backplate is about 1.5mm thick, thinner than the sides or front which are both c. 2mm thick. The plate tapers from a maximum of 18.0mm in external width at the open end, to 15.3mm wide at the closed junction with the body of the buckle or strap-end. The end of the plate is marked on the front by a transverse ridge, beyond which the object tapers and is broken (ver…
Created on: Wednesday 1st December 2021
Last updated: Thursday 9th March 2023
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Record ID: NMS-10D7DC
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap-slide of medieval date. It consists of a D-shaped frame which is also D-shaped in cross-section, with a flat interior and bevelled edges externally. There is a small circular rivet hole in the centre of the straighter edge, which is in fact slightly bent about the centre. This bar is 15mm long and the whole object is a maximum of 16mm wide; it is 15mm long and 3mm thick, and weighs 1.43g. Similar to HAMP-6DA702 and BH-FDCB55.
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-0F9219
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy strap-slide, now bent. It is nearly rectangular, with the bar measuring 20.5mm wide and other long edge 23mm, and shorter sides 16mm long externally. There is a pair of internal projections close to the bar; the other long edge has a small knop at each corner and a larger central knop, which is oval or sub-rectangular and which brings the overall length to 18mm and the thickness to 4mm. Otherwise the object is quite thin, in most places less than a millimetre thick. Strap-slides were used for holding down the free end of a strap. This one is similar to several found …
Created on: Thursday 5th March 2020
Last updated: Thursday 5th March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-AA4DA3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy mount or strap-end with bar-mount attached, probably for use with a strap-clasp. It is made from a piece of sheet, probably originally of 'shield-shaped' form with one curving end, one straight end and a narrowed central waist; it is now broken on most edges with just a scrap of semi-circular cut-out on one side. It has two copper-alloy rivets, one at each end; at the straight end, the rivet retains a bar-mount made from thicker copper-alloy sheet curved in cross-section. This has a small rectangular notch cut out of the centre of one long edge, on the rear side. Survivin…
Created on: Monday 17th February 2020
Last updated: Monday 17th February 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1241A7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chunky copper-alloy bar-mount with integral forward-facing hook, of medieval date. The bar-mount is 10mm wide and a low triangle in cross-section, 4mm thick. It has possible traces of gilding. At its base is a transverse ridge, then the object narrows into the start of the hook. This is rectangular in cross-section, and tapers gradually both in width and thickness until it curves forward in a U shape and then expands into a trapezoidal terminal, tapering upwards. This is decorated with a small groove running up from either side of the hook's shaft as it meets the terminal. On the…
Created on: Monday 10th February 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 13th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-D6FB48
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Medieval copper-alloy swivel made from three components, each cast in one piece, still attached to each other. In the centre is a hollow globular component, now damaged and incomplete, with all breaks very worn. It has a circular hole at either end, each of which retains another component. These have shafts that pass through the holes and end in circular roves inside; the roves are quite thick, and are D-shaped in cross-section. The other end of the shaft has an encircling ridged collar below a rounded loop with a circular hole 4mm in diameter. Both of these holes are blocked, one by …
Created on: Friday 7th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 7th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-B7D16E
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy medieval strap fitting, probably part of a 14th-century strap-end but perhaps an incomplete buckle plate, or a plate from a strap clasp. It is rectangular, and comprises two sheets held together by a single circular copper-alloy rivet in the centre of the short side. The other end is damaged and it is not clear whether the breaks reflect any remnant of an original shape. There appear to be no frame recesses and no gap at any fold for a frame, but there is a bit of an indentation in the centre of the damaged end which may be the remains of a pin slot. One plate is 13mm …
Created on: Thursday 19th December 2019
Last updated: Tuesday 28th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-1060DC
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Small copper-alloy strap slide, for holding down the free end of a strap. It is rectangular with an external integral rivet, 12mm wide at the top tapering to 10mm wide at the base of the frame. The top of the frame is triangular in cross-section, the sides and base rectangular. 14mm long from top of frame to base of rivet, thickness nearly 3mm, weight 1.03g. Examples from London (e.g. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1239) come from contexts of c. 1270-1400. Compare SWYOR-F1BF62.
Created on: Friday 29th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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Record ID: NMS-937FC9
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Complete copper-alloy swivel of medieval date. Both halves survive, each one with a D-shaped loop ending in an animal head at either end. All four animal heads are similar. A transverse ridge across the back of the head forms the ears, and is cut through by a longitudinal groove which runs up the neck and over the top of the head, stopping at the angle of the brow. The head has a concave curve from the brow towards the nose; there are no added details such as eyes or nostrils. The rest of the D-shaped loops, formed from the necks of the animals, are undecorated and semi-circular o…
Created on: Monday 11th November 2019
Last updated: Saturday 16th May 2020
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Record ID: CAMHER-87D615
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap fitting made from two tapering pieces of copper alloy sheet, held together by a copper-alloy rivet at the apex and a second in the centre of the wider end. One plate is decorated with incised lines; it appears to have a double line across the middle dividing it into two small panels, the wider of which at least seems to have a border around. Within each panel is a double-line saltire (diagonal cross). The edges are rather abraded and quite a bit of surface is now missing. 10 mm wide, 18 mm long, rivet c. 2 mm thick. 0.87g. Medieval, probably 13th or 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAMHER-87C1F4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete strap fitting made from copper-alloy sheet. The fitting is 12 mm wide at the attachment end and has a single central rivet hole here; it then continues to a loosely bent fold where the corners are obliquely trimmed, suggesting that the fold was designed to hold or link to another element. The object is broken at the fold. The fitting is decorated with fine incised lines; there is a pair of transverse lines at the attachment end and near the fold, with a saltire (a diagonal cross) in between. Surviving length19 mm; weight 0.88g. Medieval, probably 13th or 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAMHER-87B132
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap fitting made from a single slightly tapering sheet of copper alloy, bent in half and originally secured at the wider end by a single rivet, now missing. There is a wide gap at the central fold and the corners here have been obliquely trimmed, suggesting that the fold was perhaps intended to suspend something like a pendent mount or to hold something like a strap clasp. The fitting is decorated on the front half with a saltire (a diagonal cross) made up of neatly engraved zig-zag or rocker-arm ornament. The backplate is undecorated and is slightly narrower than the front. Maxi…
Created on: Tuesday 4th August 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: CAM-A1BC45
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Strap-end or plate from a strap clasp, made from a long rectangular piece of undecorated copper-alloy strip folded in half and secured by a pair of copper-alloy rivets (one surviving, one missing). The surviving rivet appears designed to clasp material up to 4 mm thick. Width of strip varies from 9 to 10 mm; length of object, 26 mm; weight, 2.09g. The style of the rivet suggests a medieval date. Strap clasps were in use from the 13th to 15th centuries.
Created on: Tuesday 30th June 2009
Last updated: Saturday 2nd August 2014
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Record ID: CAM-F9F557
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Chunky hooked fitting made from copper alloy. The [looped] end of the curved part of the hook is broken off, but enough survives to show that the hook's cross-section was lozengiform with a lower carination internally and a higher one externally. The hook itself is large and the break is relatively fresh. On the back of the hook is a raised flattened area. The surviving end, near the raised flattened area, turns a right angle, but keeps the same cross-section, and becomes a straight shaft decorated with diagonal grooves running across the carination to give a twisted cable effect. Thi…
Created on: Monday 22nd June 2009
Last updated: Monday 17th July 2017
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Record ID: SF9197
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy openwork mount, perhaps from a strap. It is basically rectangular, 24 x 17 mm, although now slightly bent. A flat frame runs around the outside, thickened at each corner to take a rivet hole; one rivet hole is now broken (old break). Rising from within this frame is an almost three-dimensional lion. The lion is in profile towards the left, with its head turned to look out of the frame towards the observer. Both hind paws and the lion's left forepaw rest on the base of the frame; the lion's right forepaw stretches towards the left-hand side of the frame. All of …
Created on: Thursday 22nd August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WALBERSWICK', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9158
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy bar-mount. It is rectangular in shape, 21.5 x 5 mm, and has bevelled edges. It does not appear to be decorated. The main part of the mount is 2 mm thick, but the addition of a small integral rivet at either end brings the total thickness up to 4 mm.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9159
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Crude mount made from thin copper-alloy sheet, 24 x 6 mm, with one long edge straight and the other having two shallow incurves forming three lobes. The short edges are rounded. Each of the three lobes accommodates an iron rivet. There is little dating evidence, but the mount is a similar size to the type known as a bar-mount.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9160
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount made from a piece of strip folded in half to form a basically rectangular shape. The attachment edge on the front is decoratively if crudely shaped, with a wide V-shaped cut-out in the centre and a narrower one to either side. The back plate is cut straight across. Below this is a single off-centre copper-alloy rivet, now rather corroded. Then comes a more central circular hole in both front and back plates, 3 mm in diameter; this is probably decorative, but could have served to reinforce a pin hole. At the fold, each corner has a large rectangular cut-out and th…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9161
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Long narrow bar-mount made from copper alloy, with the remains of a loop at one end. The bar-mount is 6 mm wide, and is D-shaped in cross-section with a flange down either long edge. The flanges appear to have worn beaded decoration. There is a rivet hole at either end, and beyond one of these is a narrowed bent-under projection which was probably originally a suspension loop or hook. Length of the bar-mount without projection, 32 mm; total length, 35 mm.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: SF9162
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat rectangular copper-alloy mount measuring 29 x 15 mm, with a central hole measuring 5 mm in diameter. It is in excellent condition, with a highly polished front; this has bevelled edges and is decorated with a border of rocker-arm engraving around a saltire of similar rocker-arm which is cut by the hole. There is a separate copper-alloy rivet in the centre of each short edge; the rivets are 4 mm long. This mount may be purely decorative, or it may have served to reinforce the holes for the pin.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9163
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusually shaped mount made from copper-alloy sheet. It is in the shape of a crescent with, in the centre of the convex edge, a projecting fleur-de-lis. There is a rivet hole in the centre of the fleur-de-lis and also one at either end of the crescent. On one face, the edges are slightly bevelled and two tiny grooves separate the stem of the fleur-de-lis from the crescent; the reverse is flat. The crescent is 16 mm wide and the entire mount is 22 mm long.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9164
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Bar-mount with pendent loop, both made from copper alloy. The bar-mount is 4 mm wide, with a narrower lower end which was originally bent around the pendent loop and secured by a rivet at the lower end of the mount. It is now broken at the bend. The mount is also broken at an upper rivet hole; its surviving length is 18 mm. The pendent loop is a quatrefoil with one foil having a constriction around which the bar-mount is bent. It measures 12.5 x 12.5 mm. The total combined length is 29 mm. A similar example is illustrated in Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1189, from a late 14th-c…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9165
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Domed sexfoil mount pressed from a piece of copper-alloy sheet. Each foil has a hollow pressed into it, giving a sub-triangular cross-section with concave sides. There is a central rivet hole.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9166
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Sexfoil mount, domed but with a flat top. Each foil has a curved edge, although these are now ragged in places. The foils are separated by grooves and there is a central rivet hole. This mount is large for its type.
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9153
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is D-shaped and highly arched, with a large collared knop at the highest point of the arch. The opposite edge is 15 mm long, and has a central circular rivet hole.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF9154
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is basically rectangular, measuring 19 x 18 mm; the upper edge is decoratively curved downwards at either end and upwards in the centre. The central part has cross-hatched decoration and is very slightly expanded. The opposite edge has a central circular rivet hole. This strap-slide probably formed a set with similar belt-mounts with expanded domed centres decorated with cross-hatching (e.g. Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 1161); these appear to date from the second half of the fourteenth century.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9133
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large barred mount made from copper alloy. The plate is made out of thin sheet and is roughly rectangular, with one large curved and one small V-shaped decorative cut-out on each long edge. The attachment edge has rounded corners and a single rivet hole; the other edge has a bar-mount made of thick sheet, C-shaped in cross-section, attached by a separate copper-alloy rivet 6 mm long. The bar-mount has a rectangular notch cut out of its inner edge (i.e. the edge opposite to the one on the edge of the plate).
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9134
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large barred mount made from copper alloy. The plate is made out of thin sheet and although it has lost most of its edges appears to have been roughly rectangular, with a curved decorative cut-out on each long edge close to the bar-mount. The attachment edge has rounded corners and a single rivet hole blocked by copper-alloy corrosion; the other edge has a bar-mount made of thick sheet, C-shaped in cross-section, attached by a separate copper-alloy rivet 6 mm long. The bar-mount has a rectangular notch cut out of its inner edge (i.e. the edge opposite to the one on the edge of the p…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9135
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount made from copper alloy. The plate is made out of thin sheet and is roughly figure-of-eight shaped, with an oval lobe and a half-oval lobe. The oval lobe is at the attachment end, and has a single rivet. The half-oval lobe has a bar-mount running across it made of thick sheet, C-shaped in cross-section, attached by a second rivet. There is no notch in the bar-mount. Each rivet is made of copper-alloy and has a separate square or lozengiform rove made from copper-alloy sheet. The rivet at the attachment end is 3 mm long and that at the bar-mount is 5 mm long.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9136
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount made from copper alloy. The plate is made out of thin sheet, and appears to have lost most of its edges. As it survives now, it is roughly figure-of-eight shaped, with one lozengiform lobe and one half-lozenge lobe. The lozengiform lobe is at the attachment end, and has a single rivet hole blocked with copper-alloy corrosion. The half-lozenge lobe has a bar-mount running across it made of thicker sheet and C-shaped in cross-section. The bar-mount has no notch, and is attached by a separate copper-alloy rivet 5 mm long. This rivet has a separate squarish rove made fro…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9140
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible barred mount. A piece of copper-alloy sheet, now fragmentary but originally shield-shaped, has a broken rivet hole towards the pointed end. The straight end has a bar-mount fixed across it, made from solid rectangular-section copper alloy bar with the short ends bevelled, rather than the more usual curved piece of copper-alloy sheet. This is attached by separate two copper-alloy rivets rather than the more usual one; the more complete rivet is 5 mm long, and has corrosion around its shaft suggesting the original presence of a rove.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9143
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount consisting of a plate and a bar-mount, both made from copper alloy. The plate is made from thin sheet; the attachment end is now fragmentary but was originally rounded, and has one separate copper-alloy rivet which retains a small sheet rove. The sides each have a pair of small semi-circular cut-outs, and then the other end is rectilinear. Onto this is fixed the bar-mount, made from thicker sheet with a C-shaped cross-section. This is held by another rivet with lozengiform sheet rove; it sits at a slight angle. In the centre of the bar-mount's inner edge (i.e. the edg…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9144
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount consisting of a plate and a bar-mount, both made from copper alloy. The plate is made from thin sheet; the attachment end is rounded, and has one rivet hole which is now incomplete. The sides each have a pair of shallow semi-circular cut-outs, and then the other end is rectilinear. Onto this end is fixed the bar-mount, made from thicker sheet with a C-shaped cross-section. This is held by a separate copper-alloy rivet. In the centre of the bar-mount's inner edge (i.e. the edge furthest from the edge of the plate) there is a rectangular notch.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9146
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount made from copper alloy. The plate is made out of thin sheet, and appears to have lost most of its edges. As it survives now, it is roughly trapezoidal, with a bar-mount running across the longest edge. This is made of thicker sheet, C-shaped in cross-section, and has a notch in the centre of the inner edge (i.e. the edge furthest from the edge of the plate). The bar-mount is attached by a separate copper-alloy rivet 5 mm long, with the remains of a separate rove made from copper-alloy sheet. The plate has no other rivet hole, so is presumably (although not necessarily…
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9148
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is trapezoidal, with a 22 mm long upper edge which has a raised scalloped central ridge. The opposite edge is 20 mm long and has a central circular rivet hole which is blocked by the remains of a copper-alloy rivet. This rivet would have been internal to the strap-slide and would have fixed it to the strap.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9149
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy loop, probably a strap-slide. One end is rectilinear and the other is more rounded; the loop measures 22 x 7 mm and is 2 mm thick. Strap-slides hold down the free end of a strap, so this strap would have to be quite thin.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9150
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is pentagonal, with an angled upper edge 26.5 mm long; both the upper edge and the sides are trapezoidal in cross-section and have visible filemarks. The opposite edge is 22.5 mm long, and a flatter rectangle in cross-section; it has a central circular rivet hole in which a separate copper-alloy rivet survives together with a small sheet rove. This rivet is internal to the strap-slide and retains a scrap of pale textile.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9151
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is pentagonal, with an angled upper edge 24 mm long; both the upper edge and the sides are trapezoidal in cross-section and have visible filemarks. The opposite edge is 21 mm long, and a flatter rectangle in cross-section; it has a central circular rivet hole in which a separate internal copper-alloy rivet survives.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9152
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, used for holding down the free end of a strap. It is pentagonal, with an angled upper edge 27 mm long. The opposite edge is 23 mm long, and has a central circular rivet hole in which a separate internal copper-alloy rivet survives. Rather corroded.
Created on: Tuesday 13th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9114
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end made from a single piece of copper-alloy sheet bent in half and secured by a single separate copper-alloy rivet. The rivet is neatly concealed at one end but has a conspicuous (but neat) thick round disc head at the other. The strap-end appears to have been made out of sheet previously used for something else, because it tapers from 14 mm wide at one end to 11 mm wide at the other. The unbent length is about 27 mm, and it is possible that a single sheet from a composite strap-end was modified to form this object.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9115
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One sheet from a composite strap-end. Made from copper-alloy, it is 46 mm long and tapers from 13 mm at one end to 10 mm just before the simple lozengiform terminal. There are no rivets or rivet holes and no trace of solder; there is no decoration. Part of one long edge plus the corner at the terminal has a flange less than a millimetre thick, indicating the original presence of side-strips.
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9117
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-fitting, perhaps a strap-end, made from a piece of copper-alloy sheet folded in half and secured by two rivets. One rivet is now missing and that corner is bent and damaged; the other rivet is made from copper alloy. A line made from very neat rouletted squares runs outside the rivets and up either side, but does not continue beyond the fold. There is a slight gap at the fold, as if to accommodate a bar, and a very slight taper as if to accommodate a frame. The object is not neatly square; the corners are not at right angles. As it stands, a use as a strap-end would be perfe…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9107
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end, now consisting of two pieces of copper-alloy sheet held together by a single separate copper-alloy rivet at one end. One piece is broken off at 22.5 mm long; it is decorated with a line of rocker-arm engraving down each long edge, and an irregular central longitudinal grooved zig-zag made up of punchmarks. In each of the angles of the zig-zag is a short longitudinal groove, similarly made up of punchmarks. The other piece of copper alloy is also probably broken, but survives to 35.5 mm long; it is undecorated. The maximum width, at the attachment end, is 8.5 mm; this tap…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9109
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One plate from a composite strap-end, made from copper alloy. It tapers from 20 mm wide at the attachment end to 15 mm wide just before a terminal which is now simply rounded but which may originally have been pointed. The attachment end has two separate but well-concealed copper-alloy rivets each 4 mm long, and is slightly incurved with a central semi-circular cut-out. A groove runs a little way up the strap-end from the cut-out. The plate is pitted with corrosion and no decoration is visible, but despite this the presence of the groove indicates that it was the upper plate. On th…
Created on: Friday 9th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9092
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny strap-slide made from copper alloy, with a single integral external rivet with a burred-over end. It is trapezoidal, measuring 9 mm wide at the edge with the rivet and 10 mm wide at the opposite edge. Each edge is roughly triangular or trapezoidal in cross-section, and has visible filemarks, so it is quite well-made despite its tiny size. Length of loop 9 mm; total length 13 mm.
Created on: Thursday 8th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KENTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9047
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy mount in the shape of an animal head, perhaps a wolf. Hollow on the reverse, it has two perforations for eyes in the centre and a third similarly sized rivet hole above. The brow, through which the third rivet hole passes, is cross-hatched, and there is an upright ear to either side. Each ear is emphasised by a groove. The brow is roughly rectangular and is divided from the rest of the head by a groove. The face then tapers to a triangular nose, below which is an open mouth with slightly damaged jaws. The mount is reminiscent of the more common crowned-head mou…
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9048
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small and flimsy copper-alloy mount in the shape of a six-petalled flower. In between the petals are panels decorated with tiny pellets, and there is a rivet hole in the centre. Each of the petals is slightly hollowed on the reverse.
Created on: Monday 5th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8950
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small strap-end made from two pieces of copper-alloy. The upper plate is 8 mm wide at the attachment edge and tapers gently to a lozengiform terminal; there is no decoration. The lower plate is 7 mm wide, shorter and thinner than the upper plate. They are held together by a single separate copper-alloy rivet at the attachment edge and a second at the base of the terminal; the lower plate is broken at this second rivet hole.
Created on: Thursday 18th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8951
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Trapezoidal strap-slide. The lower edge is 14 mm wide and has a central rivet hole. Both of the sides are 14 mm long, and the upper edge is 15.5 mm long and triangular in cross-section. These objects were riveted to a buckled strap and used for holding down the free end.
Created on: Thursday 18th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'GREAT FINBOROUGH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8910
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat rectangular copper-alloy mount with off-centre decorative hole, made from very thin metal. It measures 14 mm wide and 29 mm long, and much of one end is missing. There is a 2 mm diameter rivet hole at each end, and the central hole is 4 mm in diameter. The mount is decorated with a border of repoussé dots. This decoration, on thin sheet metal, is also characteristic of early Anglo-Saxon bucket mounts, but these are long strips; a relatively short piece with a border on all four sides and a central hole is much more likely to be a late medieval belt mount.
Created on: Friday 12th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8908
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat rectangular copper-alloy mount with central decorative hole. The mount is not exactly rectilinear, and is a maximum of 13 mm wide and 35 mm long. There is a small rivet hole at each end, one retaining an iron rivet, and the central hole is 4 mm in diameter. The mount is decorated with four groups of three oblique lines, forming three panels. The two outer panels have four chevrons and a central groove, looking like an ear of wheat motif; the chevrons in one panel point the opposite way from those in the other. The central panel has a single chevron to either side of the hole,…
Created on: Wednesday 10th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8855
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular mount made of copper alloy, flat and 23.5 mm in diameter, with integral square-section spike or rivet on the reverse. The mount is now a bit battered and the rivet has been squashed to lie flat along the reverse. The upper surface has sunken and counter-relief decoration which was almost certainly originally enamelled. The motif is now very unclear, possibly due to the lack of enamel; but it appears to be asymmetrical, possibly a bird looking back over its shoulder, with a disproportionately large wing. The ornament dates it to the medieval period.
Created on: Monday 1st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8821
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy belt mount. The centre is a domed rounded lobe with decoration of four horizontal grooves; vertical grooves run between the first and third of these, forming two rows of cross-hatched squares above a single horizontal groove. To top and bottom are smaller slightly rounded lobes, also slightly domed, each with a separate copper-alloy rivet. Similar mounts from London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, 1160-3) come from contexts of the second half of the 14th century.
Created on: Monday 24th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PARHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8838
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Heavy-duty copper-alloy mount, probably from a large belt or harness. Made from a single piece of copper alloy, one end is a circular plate 26 mm in diameter with a large integral rivet on the reverse. A tapering projection from the circular plate bends around and expands at the end to accommodate a perforation into which the other end of the rivet fits. The bend is now broken. This mount is probably medieval; the alternative, that it is a late Roman belt-fitting (a 'rosette-plate'), seems less likely due to the lack of decoration and the rather large heavy feel of the object.
Created on: Monday 24th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HESSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8749
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-end, now probably incomplete, made from two sheets of copper alloy. The sheets are cut into an ornate shape and there is a central longitudinal line of rocker-arm engraving on one sheet. They are very tightly and precisely joined together and it is very hard to see what joins them; perhaps solder, or perhaps a very well-concealed rivet. At the (presumably) broken end the two sheets come apart very slightly. As the sheets are so tightly joined, with little room for a strap between them, perhaps this is an extremely long terminal from a 14th-century composite strap-end.
Created on: Thursday 13th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LITTLE CORNARD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8711
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible fragment of strap-end; a single sheet of copper alloy 27.5 mm long, which tapers from a maximum of 12 mm wide at one end, and has an incurved cut-out in the centre of each long side. The narrower end has some sort of projection, perhaps now broken. One face has some iron staining at the wider end which looks as if it has come from a rivet, but there is no trace of iron or of a rivet hole on the opposite face. Possibly part of a composite strap-end of 14th-century date.
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8655
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Published
Plate, perhaps from a strap clasp or book clasp, made by folding a long rectangular strip of copper alloy in half. There is a wide circular gap at the fold, 5.5 mm in external diameter. The strip tapers at the fold to 6 mm wide, presumably to accommodate some kind of frame. One half is decorated with an engraved motif, probably a plant, which has two decorated leaves and a triangular flower in the centre. To either side is rocker-arm engraving. The plant appears to be the right way up when the plate is held with the fold downwards.
Created on: Thursday 6th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WIX', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8371
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Single sheet from a composite strap-end. It is U-shaped, and is broken across a rivet hole at the straight end. One face is polished and the other has both filemarks and the scar from a soldered-on forked spacer. The plate is now bent; surviving length, as bent, 22 mm. 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 2nd April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORDHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8247
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small but three-dimensional copper-alloy mount, perhaps from a strap. 23 mm long, each flat rounded end has a rivet hole blocked by iron corrosion. Between the terminals the mount is triangular in cross-section. Below one of the terminals is a stylised animal head with grooved eyes, a broad pointed nose and open jaws. Beyond the open jaws the mount has, on each facet, a moulded triangle decorated with oblique grooves; these increase the width to the maximum of 8.5 mm. Beyond these, and just before the other terminal, the section changes briefly to a tall triangle, increasing the t…
Created on: Tuesday 5th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as ''Badlingham'', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8219
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large rectangular copper-alloy mount, measuring 45 x 32 mm. Each of the corners has decorative cut-outs, which meet in the centre of the short edges with a V-shaped cut-out which runs into the interior of the mount as a groove. In the centre of the mount is a circular hole 5 mm in diameter, and in each corner is a separate 4 mm long copper-alloy rivet. The mount is decorated with lines of rocker-arm engraving; between each rivet and the short edge is a short line of rocker-arm parallel to the edge, and the rest of the space on the mount is filled with four rocker-arm saltires. The …
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WESTERFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8202
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap fitting, perhaps a buckle or perhaps a looped mount. It consists of an oval frame or loop, 12 mm wide and 14 mm long, with an integral plate or mount 12 mm long which flares from 7 mm wide at its junction with the loop to 9 mm wide at the far end. The plate has two holes set longitudinally. The object may be a buckle, with one hole for a pin and one for a rivet; originally it was thought to be an incomplete double-looped buckle with central plate (as Egan and Pritchard 1991, no. 488, thought to be from a spur) but it is now clear that the far end of the plate is an…
Created on: Tuesday 26th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'IPSWICH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF8157
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very large example of a standard type of medieval belt-mount known as a bar-mount. It consists of a central circular or slightly oval lobe, slightly thicker than the rest of the mount and with a decorative central perforation. There are then two very slightly tapering arms, facetted on the upper surface so pentagonal in cross-section. These both end in smaller rounded terminals which are pierced to take a separate copper-alloy rivet, both of which survive. The mount is 55 mm long, and the central lobe is 11 mm across and 4 mm thick. Similar mounts excavated in London (Egan and Pri…
Created on: Wednesday 13th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HEPWORTH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8089
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Two identically shaped mounts made from copper alloy. The shape was perhaps intended to be a shell; it consists of three long mouldings, separated by grooves, with a shorter moulding to either side. In the centre is a rivet hole and the reverse is slightly hollowed. One mount is in much better condition than the other, but the other has a surviving separate copper-alloy rivet which is well-concealed from the front. The better-preserved one (weighing 1.17g) has a dark brown patina, the other (weighing 1.37g) a greyer patina with pale green corrosion bubbles. They were probably part…
Created on: Tuesday 5th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ISLEHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8084
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Trapezoidal strap-slide with two internal projections. The projections held the strap-slide to the fixed part of the strap at the bottom, and the free end could then be threaded through the upper part. The strap-slide measures 15 mm long, 19 mm wide at the bottom, and 21 mm wide at the top. It is undecorated. This form of strap-slide dates to the late 12th to late 14th century.
Created on: Monday 4th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8085
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Barred mount of the type thought to have been used with strap clasps with rotating ends. The plate is made from a sub-rectangular piece of copper-alloy sheet, with rounded corners and with a semi-circular cut-out on each long edge forming a narrowed waist near to one end. This plate is only 9 mm wide. There is a separate copper-alloy rivet at each end, each with a separate circular copper-alloy rove. At the end closest to the cut-outs, the rivet holds a bar-mount which is C-shaped in cross-section. This bar is 12 mm long and instead of being set transversely is turned at a slight …
Created on: Monday 4th February 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF7858
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy bar-mount from a belt. There is a central circular lobe which is 7 mm across and 4 mm thick, and which has a central perforation. To top and bottom are two narrow D-section arms, each only 2 mm thick and 3 mm wide. One is complete with an expanded and raised rounded terminal, and a rivet hole cutting through the junction of the arm and the terminal. The other arm is broken at the rivet hole. Surviving length 17 mm, original length c. 19 mm.
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHIPPENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF7859
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cambridgeshire
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount. The central lobe is an openwork rectangle, and in the centre of one short edge is a trefoil terminal, perhaps intended as a fleur-de-lis, with a surviving copper-alloy rivet in the middle. In the centre of the opposite short edge is the broken stub of a second terminal. Surviving length 25 mm, original length c. 33 mm.
Created on: Thursday 10th January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'CHIPPENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7820
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large sexfoil mount, each foil with a rounded end. The mount is made of thin sheet with a decayed white-metal coating, and rises with a concave curve to a tall point. In one of the foils is a complete rivet hole, and in the opposite one is a broken hole. The point may also have had a hole, but is now broken. The mount measures 24 mm across and is 8 mm tall.
Created on: Monday 7th January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FORNHAM ST MARTIN', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7804
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Three pieces of copper-alloy sheet with circular holes through them, perhaps the remains of riveted strap fittings. One is sub-rectangular, 20.5 x 13 mm, with one good right-angled corner and two complete rivet holes. The other two are more nearly rectangular, 18 x 22 mm (with two off-centre rivet holes) and 8 x 12 mm (with one off-centre rivet hole). Total weight 3.29g. Hard to date, but probably medieval.
Created on: Thursday 3rd January 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7625
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap fitting made from a piece of copper-alloy strip folded in half and secured at the attachment end with two copper-alloy rivets, both of which survive only as corrosion. The rivet holes on the reverse are broken. It measures 40 mm long by a maximum of 13.5 mm wide at the attachment edge on the upper plate, and tapers to 11 mm wide at the attachment edge on the under plate. Many of the edges are fragmentary, including the attachment edge and the folded edge, but there are some details of the broken edges which may give clues to the original shape. The upper plate has two rounded…
Created on: Monday 17th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ARWARTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7581
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, to hold the free end of a strap down. It has been ingeniously shaped with a wide shallow round-ended lower part, and a narrower deeper trapezoidal upper part. The strap is held firmly in the lower part and the upper part is deep enough to allow mounts on the free end of the strap to pass through it. The upper edge is decoratively shaped, with a possible stylised animal head at each end and a long oval lobe in between. It is rather corroded, but where the surface survives this is a shiny black. Similar items from London (Egan and Pritchard 1991, nos. 1254-…
Created on: Wednesday 12th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WENHASTON WITH MELLS HAMLET', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7543
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Rectangular strap-end made from a front and back plate of copper alloy with a separate strip along each side edge. There is a single separate copper-alloy rivet at the attachment end; the other end is open, and has lost not only its separate end strip but also part of the top and bottom plates. The surviving length is 39 mm and the width is 11 mm. The side strips are 2.5 mm wide, and have some shiny white-metal coating, probably the remains of solder. The front plate has grooved and counter-relief decoration at the attachment end, consisting of a grooved border around what looks lik…
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KESSINGLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7544
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusual type of mount. It is basically made from a rectangular piece of copper-alloy sheet folded in half and secured with four rivets. One rivet is in the centre, two are at the corners of the open end, and the fourth is halfway between the centre and the folded edge. The central rivet is 6 mm long and projects a fair way on one face, but the fourth rivet is 2.5 mm long and is flush with both faces. The edges are fragmentary, but the surviving dimensions of the folded plate are 26 mm long and 23 mm wide (i.e. parallel to the fold). A short slot has been cut in the folded edge, and …
Created on: Wednesday 5th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'KESSINGLAND', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7517
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-end made from two sheets of copper alloy. It is a long rectangle in shape, with all edges now a little damaged; the surviving width is 9 mm and the length47 mm. The top sheet is decorated with a saltire of rocker-arm engraving, and both sheets are cut into a decorative terminal consisting of a transverse lobe and a rounded end. There is a single separate copper-alloy rivet at the attachment end, which retains a scrap of pale textile between the two sheets. Another at the terminal has now come adrift from the upper sheet. This strap-end is of composite type, alth…
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'COCKFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7520
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small copper-alloy bar-mount. The central lobe is rounded and pierced, and there is a tapering arm to top and bottom. Each arm ends in a small moulding; just before the moulding each arm is pierced for a rivet. One 5 mm long separate copper-alloy rivet survives.
Created on: Tuesday 4th December 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SAHAM TONEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7490
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small mount in the form of a crowned head. Convex and made of copper alloy, it is not particularly well modelled; there is a straight mouth below a broad nose, with a triangular eye to either side. The crown above has three points, each divided into three. There is a large separate square-section copper-alloy rivet through the base of the crown.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK LACKFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7499
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small strap-slide, for holding down the free end of a strap. The loop is trapezoidal, with one side flaring more than the other up to the top which is 10.5 mm long. The top is also a little wider than the other sides, and has bevelled edges. The bottom is 9 mm long and has an integral external rivet in the centre. Parallels from London are from late 13th to 15th century contexts.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7500
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-slide, for holding down the free end of a strap. The loop is rectangular internally and pentagonal externally, with the top edge being pointed. In the centre of the bottom edge is an integral external rivet. Parallels from London are from late 13th to 15th century contexts.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7501
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy composite strap-end. A large solid knop takes up about a third of the strap-end's length, and has a triple collar below a large globular end. The central moulding of the collar is wider than the other two. The rest of the strap-end consists of the two forked arms, which form a U shape. An outer U-shaped plate is soldered to each face, with a single copper-alloy rivet joining these at the attachment end. A nice chunky strap-end.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7502
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount with an openwork rectangular centre and a rounded, perhaps shell-shaped, terminal at either end. The long sides of the rectangle are bevelled. One of the rounded terminals has three large but crude edge nicks and the other has four; they both have separate copper-alloy rivets.
Created on: Thursday 29th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK FRECKENHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7404
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small repoussé copper-alloy mount, in the shape of a crowned M. The letter is Lombardic, with convex sides which curl outwards at the bottom. The crown has three points, the central one branching into three at the top and the two side points branching into two. There is a single central rivet hole. The crowned M stands for Mary, Queen of Heaven, and this mount probably dates to the 13th or 14th century when the cult of Mary was at its height.
Created on: Thursday 15th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7348
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Hinged strap fitting, similar to a buckle plate. It is made from a long rectangular strip of copper-alloy folded in half and secured by five copper-alloy rivets with large knobbed heads. There is a wide gap at the fold, as if for a hinge bar, and there is a faint engraved-line border. There are no frame recesses nor any provision for a pin, so it cannot be the plate for a buckle or a strap clasp. The rivets indicate that it must however be of medieval date.
Created on: Tuesday 6th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7341
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Circular copper-alloy mount, 17.5 mm in diameter. It is slightly domed with a perforation of 5 mm diameter in the centre. There is a separate copper-alloy rivet to either side; these each have a separate rove, one square and one roughly circular, and retain traces of textile.
Created on: Monday 5th November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7305
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Bar-mount from a belt, 30 mm long. In the centre is a rounded lobe 3 mm thick, with a large decorative perforation. Two arms extend from this, both flatter and tapering with D-shaped cross-sections. One arm ends in a rounded lobe with a rivet hole; the other ends in a thin rectangular lobe with a rivet hole through the junction between the arm and the terminal lobe. In this rivet hole a 6 mm long copper-alloy rivet survives.
Created on: Thursday 1st November 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7289
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Incomplete copper-alloy mount. It consists of an almost-rectilinear piece of copper alloy, 10 mm wide, with one end broken off; the other end has an off-centre integral rivet on the reverse. The mount is decorated with fine transverse wavy lines; although these now stand proud of the corroded surface, they may originally have been engraved. They cannot be seen to extend beyond the left-hand half of the mount (as you look at it with the broken end at the bottom); at the bottom right-hand end there appears to be a tiny chevron. The rivet is large (10.5 mm long with the thickness of t…
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'PEASENHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7278
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large rectangular copper-alloy mount, probably a stiffener from a large belt. One end is intact, but the other end is bent and part is missing. The intact end is 23 mm wide, and is decorated with a pair of transverse grooves which are made up of lines scribed over and over again, not perfectly overlapping. Between the grooves is a single central decorative hole, 3 mm in diameter, flanked by a pair of smaller rivet holes, one retaining a small separate copper-alloy rivet. Between the pair of transverse grooves and the edge are five short grooves which run inward from the edge; most …
Created on: Tuesday 30th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BADINGHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7079
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy strap-slide, basically 12 mm square but with one side 13.5 mm long. In the centre of the opposite side is a separate internal rivet with an oval integral rove. The longer side is D-shaped in section and is 3 mm wide. A small and simple example of a strap-slide, which was used to hold down the free end of a belt or other strap.
Created on: Wednesday 10th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WYVERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF7044
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount, probably from a belt. It has a slightly domed rounded central lobe, decorated with five transverse grooves; the ridges in between the grooves are themselves transversely grooved. There is a small rectangular terminal lobe at either end, each with a separate copper-alloy rivet; one is either broken, or was irregularly made.
Created on: Thursday 4th October 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NACTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6785
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Cast copper-alloy mount in the shape of a crowned head, now very worn. Horizontal grooves making up the mouth and the eyes can be seen, and some relief detail on the central projection of the crown. There is a rivet hole through the centre of the crown's band. The reverse is concave. These mounts are not uncommon in the medieval period.
Created on: Tuesday 18th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6759
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One plate from a copper-alloy composite belt fitting, probably a strap-end but possibly alternatively a buckle. All edges are broken, but the plate is still basically rectangular. In one corner a separate copper-alloy rivet survives. There is grooved decoration on one face; a single-line border survives along one long edge, and the plate is divided into two panels by a double transverse groove. Each panel has an engraved motif which looks like an hourglass; two lines lead away from the double transverse groove in a convex curve towards a central waist, then curve outwards again in …
Created on: Monday 17th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STUSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6760
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Tiny mount in the shape of a six-point star, made from a grey metal which may be a copper alloy. The front has relief decoration of two interlocking triangles to form a Star of David, and a central boss. The boss may have been intended to look like the head of a separate rivet, but in fact there is an off-centre integral rivet on the reverse, possibly incomplete, with a square cross-section. The dimensions are 9 mm from point to point on the star, and 4 mm thick. The date is surprisingly hard to establish; the size is right for a medieval mount, but the square-section rivet is unusual.
Created on: Monday 17th September 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK STUSTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6560
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy strap-slide with pair of internal projections, now both broken off. Only the upper edge is now straight, and this is decorated with low corner knops and a gently expanded centre with a rounded boss in between two transverse mouldings. The sides are curved outwards, and the lower edge is curved inwards. This is presumably the result of crushing, but there is no apparent stress to the metal and so it may have happened in antiquity.
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ORFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6561
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large barred mount of the type used with strap clasps, made of copper alloy. The thin plate has a rectangular end and a slightly more rounded end, with a concave waist in between; there is a pair of tiny pointed projections as the waist curves out towards the rounded end. Both the rounded end and the rectangular end have a single separate copper-alloy rivet. The one at the rounded end has a separate squarish copper-alloy rove; the one at the rectangular end has a similar rove and retains a bar-mount made out of thick curved copper-alloy sheet, with a rectangular slot cut out of its …
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ORFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6562
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Just over half of a long copper-alloy bar-mount. D-shaped in section, it has a small rounded terminal pierced for a rivet, and then flares gently to a central circular lobe which has a central perforation. Beyond this, the opposite arm is broken off (fairly fresh break). The surviving length is 30.5 mm, but originally it must have been nearly 50 mm long.
Created on: Wednesday 15th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK ORFORD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6537
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Strap-slide, used to hold down the free end of a fastened strap. It is roughly trapezoidal, with rounded corners, and has a pair of internal projections close to the shorter of the two long sides. These projections would have fixed it onto the strap. In the centre of the longest side is an oval boss which can only be seen when the strap-slide is viewed from the top. These slides tend to be fairly tall in order to allow strap-mounts to slide through. Those with internal projections date from the late 12th to the late 14th century.
Created on: Tuesday 7th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BRADFIELD COMBUST WITH STANNINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6530
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small lozenge-shaped copper-alloy mount, slightly domed, with a central rivet hole. It measures 15 x 10 mm and is 2 mm thick; the central hole is 3 mm in diameter. The centre of each edge is bevelled. As it is so small, it may, instead of being a decorative medieval mount, be a functional (but decorated) rove of almost any date.
Created on: Monday 6th August 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: SF6508
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Very unusual copper-alloy object in the form of an animal, perhaps a cat, with its paw on a human head. The animal is in profile and almost three-dimensional, but is now incomplete; part of the back legs are missing, along with part of the line on which it is standing. There is a V-shaped groove on the hindquarters delineating the start of the tail, but most of this is missing too. The back of the animal is formed from a bar, which is narrowed for c. 13 mm in the centre; this looks like a narrowing to take a strap, which is why it has been tentatively identified as a strap fitting. …
Created on: Tuesday 24th July 2001
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK HENLEY', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF6477
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy hinged strap fitting. Basically rectangular, it has slightly incurved long sides with two hinge loops at one end and a large animal-head terminal at the other. The object is 19 mm wide at the hinged end; a slot 4 mm wide has been cut in the centre and the two halves rolled over (one is now missing). There are no frame recesses, so it seems unlikely (but possible) that the object is a buckle plate. Below the hinge loops, the object tapers to 17.5 mm wide, and is decorated with an engraved border made by rocking a tracer very slightly along the line. There are …
Created on: Tuesday 17th July 2001
Last updated: Friday 14th June 2013
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'NORFOLK GOODERSTONE', grid reference and parish protected.