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-A5D7A9
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: UNKNOWN
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Possible strap-fitting made from a strip of copper-alloy sheet folded in half, with a single rivet hole (diameter 2.4mm) at the open end. The strip tapers very slightly from 10.2mm wide at the open end, where it is c. 3mm thick, to 8.7mm at the closed end, which has a wide, rounded fold bringing the thickness to 5.7mm. It weighs 3.6g. There is no obvious decoration, although there is a roughly circular patch of corrosion around the rivet hole on one face. It has a dark grey patina underlying a mottled dark green surface. This cannot be a conventional buckle plate because there i…
Created on: Wednesday 3rd August 2022
Last updated: Monday 8th August 2022
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Record ID: NMS-11E104
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
17th-century copper-alloy mount from a sword belt, now missing a hook or loop. It has a flared end shaped into two concave curves or zig-zags forming a W shape, with a central vertical groove running down the front, interrupted by an iron rivet close to either end. The straight sides taper to a small V-shaped cut-out on either edge, above a semi-circular cut-out giving the effect of a pair of back-to-back crescents. Below these is a possible third iron rivet, at which the object is broken. On the reverse, there is a thickened square of copper alloy just above the break. Survi…
Created on: Wednesday 27th July 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 27th July 2022
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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-0CEED0
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy 'socketed hook' strap fitting of late early-medieval date. Almost complete, it has a hook at one end which curves up and round to the reverse to form almost a complete circle or loop, 12.4mm in external diameter from front to back. The cross-section tapers throughout the curve of the hook to a minimum of 2.5 x 4.4mm. It has internal wear towards the top and slightly to the rear. Below the hook, the object has a short solid rectangular-section area which flares slightly downwards and is decorated with a groove above a moulding on each side, and a pair of grooves on th…
Created on: Wednesday 9th December 2020
Last updated: Monday 5th July 2021
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Record ID: NMS-8FEAA7
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy 17th-century trefoil junction-attachment from a sword-belt fitting. The object is complete, cast in one piece, with two circular lobes with circular perforations and a longer drop-shaped lobe with a circular perforation at its end. Between the two circular lobes is a small pointed projection with traces of a black coating on its edges. In the centre of the object, both faces have decoration of two grooves which cross saltire-wise between the two circular lobes. 23.2mm long between longer lobe and pointed projection; 21.6mm wide between circular lobes; 3.8mm thick; 5.…
Created on: Wednesday 11th March 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 17th February 2021
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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-9244DE
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of post-medieval copper-alloy sword-belt fitting, a relief-decorated mount with suspension loop. The mount is flat and sub-rectangular, with the complete end shaped into a double incurve and the object then tapering and flaring to a wide rounded area after which it is broken (unworn break). On one side, the narrowest part accommodates a rounded lug which is pierced by a circular suspension hole 6.5mm in diameter. This lug flares in thickness away from the plate to a maximum of 3.3mm. It is decorated with a narrow reserved border around a slightly sunken central panel fil…
Created on: Friday 28th February 2020
Last updated: Friday 28th February 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-3027C4
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Three linked elements once attached to a sword belt, a three-looped mount and two hooked mounts. The three-looped mount is symmetrical about the centre, with a trefoil terminal at either end. Each half of this element then flares towards the centre, with a loop projecting downwards from the widest point on each half. The mount then narrows before flaring again to a point at the centre; the third loop projects downwards from the centre. There is an iron rivet in each terminal, and an empty rivet hole in the centre. This mount is covered with neatly made decoration of engraving around a…
Created on: Thursday 30th January 2020
Last updated: Wednesday 26th May 2021
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Record ID: NMS-0050A5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy sword-belt fitting of post-medieval date, now very corroded. It has a triangular plate with straight top at a slight angle, two rivet holes set longitudinally, the upper one (nearer the wider end) filled with iron corrosion and the lower one empty. At the narrower end there are a pair of triangular projections, then a narrowed hook projects and turns backwards and under and is now corroded into a closed loop. This retains a circular copper-alloy ring 10mm in diameter. Plate, hook and ring are all a low D shape in cross-section, flat on the reverse. Length of plate and hook…
Created on: Tuesday 28th January 2020
Last updated: Sunday 25th February 2024
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Record ID: NMS-98569E
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very neatly made copper-alloy post-medieval sword-belt fitting. The plate is drop-shaped, with the apex thickened into a small knop. At the other (wider) end, in the centre a projection or collar of three ribs extends into a large circular loop which is pierced from side to side; the loop measures 4.5mm internally and 9mm in diameter externally. Between knop and loop, the drop-shaped plate is convex on the front and concave on the reverse. The front is shaped into four slight longitudinal facets, and the central arris between the facets is cut through near the knop by a small circular…
Created on: Thursday 23rd January 2020
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd March 2020
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Record ID: NMS-194822
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy shield-shaped hook from a post-medieval sword-belt, with relief decoration on the plate. When held with the hook at the bottom, the plate has a straight top, incurved side edges and an outcurved base. The centre of the base extends into a circular-section hook, 4mm wide, which curves backwards then forwards to end butted up against itself making a circular loop. The flat plate is decorated with symmetrical plant decoration in low relief, all within a low raised border. There is a pair of trefoils at the top, perhaps flowers, each on a stem; the stems are bound together at…
Created on: Friday 17th January 2020
Last updated: Friday 15th May 2020
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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-1011A5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval copper-alloy strap fitting with loop and probably originally with hook, but now incomplete. In the centre is a flat oval plate, undecorated except for a small notch cut into each long edge, one apparently larger than the other; it is possible that the smaller notch is more worn. At one end of the plate is a projecting transverse rectangular lobe, decorated with a groove, and then the stubs of a circular loop (worn breaks). At the other end is a broken stub which preserves a short length of another decorative groove, probably originally another transverse projecting lobe.…
Created on: Friday 29th November 2019
Last updated: Thursday 9th January 2020
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