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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