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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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: NMS-2DCEAB
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Almost-complete copper-alloy socketed hook of late early-medieval date. Held with the hook at the top, the base is a near-circular ring with an expanded convex oval boss at the front set so that the edge of the boss is lower than the rest of the ring. A strut rises from both back and front; the rear strut is vertical and the front strut is angled back to meet it in a solid cone which ends in the hook. The hook is now broken (very worn break) with less than half surviving. The object is worn, but there are very slight hints of a relief cross on the boss. 43mm long when held with rear s…
Created on: Wednesday 6th November 2019
Last updated: Friday 29th November 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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: SF9093
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lozenge-shaped relief-decorated openwork mount made from copper alloy. The design consists of a central cross made up of five large pellets, surrounded by a ring of smaller pellets with perforations in the angles of the cross. To either side a single large pellet projects, and to either end is a trefoil of large pellets. On the reverse are two bent-over attachment spikes. It is corroded to a rough purple-brown. This type of mount is superficially quite similar to a type of lozengiform openwork late Anglo-Saxon brooch, and together with ball-headed pins and hooked tags forms a clas…
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: SF9069
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment of an early post-medieval cast copper-alloy toggle-clasp: the toggle-end dating to c. 16th - c.17th century AD. The fragment consists of a raised and protruding toggle bar at one end, at the end of a plate decorated with symmetrically cast bifurcated knops on both sides of a small circular rivet hole, through which the object has broken. The toggle bar is a lunate bar mount, seemingly integral. A similar example can be found illustrated in Read (2008, 209; ref. 754). Read has identified this type as an 'Early post-medieval, Type 1' toggle-clasp, although he mentions th…
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Tuesday 29th November 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'WORLINGTON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9071
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount. It is basically almost circular, 16 x 17 mm, and is plano-convex, with a flat reverse and domed upper surface. Two oval perforations with small stems breaking through the edge turn this into a mushroom- or pelta-shape, the stalk of the mushroom having an expanded base. On the reverse is an integral spike or rivet. The mount itself is 6 mm thick; the rivet increases this to 12 mm. These mounts are not common and it is possible that they are military armour or horse-harness fittings.
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FELSHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF9072
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
One plate from a strap-end, made from very thin copper alloy. It is of the 'lancet-shaped' late Roman type, with a rounded body and flared attachment end, but is very much more flimsy than most. The attachment end is decoratively cut into a curly bracket shape, and has a single central rivet hole. The body of the strap-end has four rather unevenly placed central ring-and-dot motifs, and tapered to a broken point which probably originally extended into a short terminal. On the reverse are extensive traces of solder, running up to a straight line close to the junction between the att…
Created on: Tuesday 6th August 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FELSHAM', 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: SF9028
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy mount, perhaps from a belt or from horse-harness. It is in the shape of an elongated shield, with the top shaped into two incurves; the point in between develops into a a trefoil or fleur-de-lis terminal, and there is a rounded terminal at the bottom. The shield-shape and the trefoil terminal share a raised border and unclear relief decoration, probably a plant motif. The lower terminal is a simple circular slightly convex disc. On the reverse are two integral rivets or spikes.
Created on: Wednesday 31st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK CAMPSEY ASH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8972
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
'Amphora-shaped' strap-end, now incomplete. The slightly thickened terminal at the base survives, modelled in three dimensions with two transverse grooves running around it. The body of the strap-end is flat and decorated on one face with ring-and-dot motifs. Along the lower edge the ring-and-dot motifs follow the curved edge, which is presumably original. The upper edges are straighter giving a roughly lozengiform shape, and these broken edges are worn smooth and well patinated so that they look original. At the top is a horizontal groove. These strap-ends date to the very end of…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'EYE', 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: SF8926
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount in the shape of a very stylised plant, perhaps an acorn. It has two long thin pointed side leaves, a curved stalk, and a rounded central lobe (perhaps the kernel), the upper part of which is transversely ribbed but now very worn. On the reverse are two bent-over attachment spikes, which retain a scrap of leather. Early post-medieval, 16th century.
Created on: Monday 15th July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HENLEY', 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: SF8905
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy belt mount, roughly triangular in shape. There is a projection from the centre of the base, and the apex is thickened into a moulding. The mount is a low D shape in cross-section and there are two bent-over attachment spikes (one now broken) on the reverse. Early post-medieval, 16th century.
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: SF8906
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy belt mount, roughly triangular in shape. There is a projection from the centre of the base which is decorated with an edge nick to either side, and the apex has a double moulding, perhaps intended to look a little like an acorn. The centre of the mount is a low D shape in cross-section and there are two bent-over attachment spikes on the reverse. Early post-medieval, 16th century.
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: SF8907
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy belt mount. An elongated heart shape, it has two curved lobes at the wider end and then tapers to the apex, which is decorated with a triple moulding. The mount is a low D shape in cross-section and there are two bent-over attachment spikes on the reverse. Early post-medieval, 16th century.
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: 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: SF8856
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Unusual Carolingian-style copper-alloy strap-slide. It is cast in one piece, in the shape of a rectangular loop with one long side expanded into a decorative rectangular plate measuring 22.5 x 12 mm. This is slightly convex along both axes and has deeply carved decoration. Along the centre is a broad ridge which rises to a curved peak at either end and a third in the middle; between each peak and at either end is a pair of short longitudinal grooves. The decoration to either side is roughly symmetrical; a U-shaped groove (on one side) or cut-out (on the other) in the centre of eac…
Created on: Monday 1st July 2002
Last updated: Thursday 6th September 2012
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'FRECKENHAM', 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: SF8831
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Small circular copper-alloy mount, 9.5 mm in diameter and plano-convex. On the flat reverse are the stubs from two bent-over attachment spikes, too far apart to once have been part of a button loop. Total thickness 7 mm.
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: 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: SF8714
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible dress fastener or strap fitting consisting of three elements, all made from copper alloy. The first is a strap-end, now slightly bent; it measures 14 mm wide and 44 mm long. The front and sides of the strap-end are made in one piece of sheet, and the backplate is separate. They are joined by two iron rivets at the attachment end and a single copper-alloy rivet near the terminal; textile is preserved between the two plates. The front is decorated with three small V-shaped cut-outs to the attachment edge, and rings around the iron rivets. Below this is engraved decoration of a …
Created on: Tuesday 11th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 19th July 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8670
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy mount, in the shape of a heart with a stylised fleur-de-lis terminal at the pointed end. The hollowed reverse has a complete bent-over attachment spike between the two lobes of the heart, and the stub of a second broken-off spike at the junction between the heart and the lis.
Created on: Friday 7th June 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'TUDDENHAM ST MARTIN', 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: SF8508
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Pelta-shaped mount made of copper alloy, now rather corroded and with small areas missing. The pelta is a crescent with the concave side extended into a mushroom-like stem. The stem on this mount expands at the far end, and the corners are missing. One of the ends of the crescent is missing and the other is curled around to end in a rounded terminal. Much of the edges are missing. The mount is flat and undecorated, and has two integral rivets on the reverse, one in the centre of the crescent and one on the stem. These are fairly large and have burred-over ends. The mount is rela…
Created on: Tuesday 7th May 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8510
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Octagonal mount, now very worn. Some relief decoration can be seen, forming a central motif and possibly eight surrounding it, but no details can be made out. There is a large bent-over attachment spike on the reverse which is square in cross-section.
Created on: Tuesday 7th May 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8520
Object type: STRAP FITTING
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Flat circular copper-alloy mount, 19 mm in diameter. It is undecorated and now pitted with corrosion. The reverse has lots of small indentations, perhaps hammer marks, and an off-centre integral rivet 2.5 mm in diameter. The rivet has a burred-over end and brings the total thickness of the mount to 8 mm. Such a simple mount is very hard to date, but it looks old and hand-made.
Created on: Tuesday 7th May 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK WICKHAM SKEITH', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8477
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Gilded copper-alloy mount in the shape of an equal-armed cross. Two arms only, plus the centre of the cross, survive. Each arm tapers, one from 7.5 mm to 5.5 mm wide and the other from 6.5 to 5.5 mm, before finishing in a rounded end. The arms are decorated with a long U-shaped chip-carved groove. In the centre is a square, around which is a chip-carved groove. This extends a little way down the centre of each of the U-shaped grooves, and so forms the shape of an 8-point star. Gilding survives well in all of the grooves and there is a grey patina, probably the remains of silverin…
Created on: Tuesday 30th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'THORNDON', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8463
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Large copper-alloy sword-belt fitting. It consists of a flat oval plate with a long narrow transverse rectangular lobe at either end. One of these lobes appears to terminate the fitting, although as it is obscured by the corrosion from a large iron rivet it is impossible to be certain. The other is decorated with two grooves, and from the other side a large flat hook projects which extends well over halfway along the reverse of the fitting. Length of copper-alloy fitting, 43 mm. Total length of object with iron corrosion, 47 mm. Maximum width, 19 mm.
Created on: Friday 26th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'HESSETT', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8441
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Severely abraded terminal from a copper-alloy strap-end. Part of a central panel survives, with relief decoration of a longitudinal ridge which develops into a possible oval; all that remains now forms a Y shape. At the other end of the longitudinal ridge is a broad transverse ridge that separates the central panel from the terminal. Originally this terminal would have been in the form of an animal head, and it is possible to discern two long thin relief ears which run up the sides to meet the transverse ridge. Below these is a triangular panel of niello (black silver sulphide) in …
Created on: Wednesday 24th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BRANTHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8429
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded copper-alloy mount. The central lobe is drop-shaped and slightly domed, and there is a terminal at each end. The terminal at the narrower end is lozengiform or triangular, and appears to have been decorated with relief V shapes or scrolls. The terminal at the wider end is a transverse oval, and appears to have been decorated with relief V shapes. On the reverse are two bent-over attachment spikes, one at each end of the central lobe.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8434
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Lozengiform copper-alloy mount, 22 mm long and 16 mm wide. Slightly domed, it has worn and corroded relief decoration on the upper surface, consisting of a cross with a circular boss in the centre and some possible scrolls in the angles. On the reverse are two bent-over attachment spikes. There are traces of gilding on both faces.
Created on: Tuesday 16th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8419
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Relief-decorated strap fitting, probably from a sword-belt, of 17th-century date. Basically rectangular, 29 x 14 mm, one short side is extended into a slight point, and has a separate copper-alloy rivet. The two longer sides are incurved at this end. The other short side has a long slot cut into it; one half is missing, but the other half has the remains of a bent-under end around iron corrosion, probably from a bar. Both halves may have been curled over this bar, and a corresponding hook-piece could have hooked over it. The object has cast relief decoration of scrolls and heart …
Created on: Wednesday 10th April 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 10th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8398
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Corroded copper-alloy mount, roughly in the shape of a heart with a long knop projecting from the centre of the wider end and a lozengiform terminal at the narrower end. It is slightly convex, and on the reverse has the stubs of two bent-over attachment spikes. It has corroded to a matt pale green over a matt brown.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8400
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Almost-square copper-alloy mount, measuring 19 x 20 mm. It has relief decoration; in the centre is a flat-topped raised disc from which four large leaf shapes radiate, one to each corner. In between the leaf shapes are pairs of slightly unclear blobs. Around is a border of small pellets, and then an outer border of larger pellets around which the edge is decoratively shaped. The corner and centre pellets on each side are particularly large. On the reverse are the stubs of two attachment spikes.
Created on: Tuesday 9th April 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BEDINGFIELD', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8381
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Harness fitting made from copper alloy and decorated with Ringerike-style engraving. It is largely flat, with a broken arched projection at one end; below this the object flares out in a series of symmetrical incurves, and has two circular perforations before curving back to a narrow flat projection at the other end. This end also appears to be broken, although both breaks are old and worn so hard to recognise. The decoration is now very worn too, so that it is hard to read; shallowly engraved lines in a symmetrical pattern might suggest a pair of opposed animal heads whose beaks curv…
Created on: Thursday 4th April 2002
Last updated: Wednesday 13th July 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'ARWARTON', 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: SF8333
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Copper-alloy mount in the shape of an acorn. The large cup is cross-hatched and has a stalk bent at right angles. The small kernel has a knop at the top. There are traces of gilding on the upper surface. On the reverse are the stubs of two bent-over attachment spikes.
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'SUFFOLK GREAT GLEMHAM', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8321
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Long copper-alloy hook with decorative front which is now incomplete. The decorative front survives to 37.5 mm long, and consists of a relief shell motif set longitudinally at one end, with a curving branch-like element extending from its base and linking it to the side of a larger shell motif set transversely. The stub of a second branch-like element emerges from the other side of the larger shell but is then broken. The hook emerges from the reverse of the smaller shell and curves round to nearly meet the decorative front. The hook appears to be complete, with a squared-off end g…
Created on: Tuesday 26th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF8317
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Published
Robust copper-alloy mount, rectangular and measuring 19 x 21 mm. There is a ridge down the centre dividing the mount into two; each narrow rectangular lobe is transversely convex. The reverse of each of these lobes is hollowed, and the top and bottom are closed by a flat vertical edge. In the centre of the reverse is a large integral rivet with integral circular rove (now incomplete). One of the hollow lobeson the reverse is partly filled with a hard concretion which may be iron corrosion.
Created on: Monday 25th March 2002
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'BUXHALL', grid reference and parish protected.