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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
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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
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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
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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
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This findspot is known as 'COVEHITHE', grid reference and parish protected.
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