Record ID: NMS-51C218
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon silver strap-end of Thomas' (2003) Class B, Type 1. Broken across the base of a wedge-shaped rectangular-sectioned split end, below which the body is oval-sectioned, becoming circular-sectioned as it tapers to a blunt point. The body is decorated with three groups of three encircling transverse grooves, with a transverse groove on each face of the surviving split end. The surface is damaged in places including the tip, and the body is bent at about 130 degrees just below the mid-point. Surviving length 41mm. Maximum surviving width 7.5mm. Surviving thickness 5…
Created on: Thursday 30th June 2016
Last updated: Friday 1st October 2021
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sporle with Palgrave', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-2A8C26
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Later Anglo-Saxon copper alloy strap-end of Thomas' Class A, Type 1, Trewhiddle style. Very large, slightly convex-sided strap-end with three silver rivets at the split attachment end, a central rectangular panel decorated with silver sheet depicting complex interlaced beasts with at least six heads visible, with further silver sheet over the circular ears and over the forehead of the animal head terminal. The animal head has oval eyes, one of which retains of probable glass pellet, and a short, blunt snout with engraved nostrils. The split end is filled with corrosion and on the reve…
Created on: Tuesday 30th December 2014
Last updated: Wednesday 13th January 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'North Pickenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-293A9A
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end of Thomas' Class A, Type 5. Split end broken across one of the two pierced attachment lobes, with a semi-circular field below. The edges are scalloped (four on each side) either side of a central rectangular panel, below which is the animal head terminal. The semi-circular field contains a chevron and triangle in low relief probably originally reserved on a niello field, now missing. In the centre of the rectangular panel is a niello field with scrolls of silver wire inlay. The animal head terminal has circular ears, lentoid eyes with a cent…
Created on: Tuesday 30th December 2014
Last updated: Saturday 23rd February 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Burnham Market', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DAA7DB
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of a Late Anglo-Saxon silver strap-end of Thomas' Class A, Type 1 with Trewhiddle-style decoration. Only the middle section survives, broken across the decorative field at both ends; the attachment end and terminal are both missing. The sides are convex and have a double-ribbed border; the outer rib is decorated with angled transverse grooves while the inner rib is plain. The central field is decorated in low relief with a sinuous, backward-looking beast among looping interlace, one strand of which pierces the beast's body. The creature's body fills the middle of the survivin…
Created on: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Bressingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-DDEE86
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Possible gold strap-end, buckle-plate or fragment of unidentified object, perhaps a back-plate. Description: Triangular gold sheet with a straight short edge, one slightly curved long edge and one straight long edge. There are two empty holes punched through from one face at the short edge, and two punched through from the opposite face near the rounded point, one of which is through the long straight edge. The slightly asymmetric shape and incomplete hole suggest the object was originally shield-shaped and has been cut longitudinally. One face has peeled back at the right-angle…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd June 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 4th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-024171
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end. Probably Thomas' (2003) Class A, Type 1 (Trewhiddle style). Broken across the split end, almost straight sides tapering slightly to the terminal, bent, with very worn decoration containing traces of white inlay, probably decayed niello or possibly enamel, with an animal head terminal with round ears and a double chevron across the forehead. Length 29mm. Width 10mm. AD 850 - 1000.
Created on: Monday 24th March 2014
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C46A75
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end. Attachment end missing with ragged, ancient transverse break, very worn indistint decoration with worn animal head terminal on which no details survive. On the reverse is a large patch of silvery solder. Surviving length 20mm. Width 10mm. Late 8th - 10th century.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 19th March 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-C2DC24
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end. Split end broken across one rivet hole, convex sides, with traces of decoration within a panel or two panels on the body, and very slight details of animal head terminal with ears. Very worn. Length 25mm. Width 8.5mm. Late 8th - 10th century.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 19th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C2C624
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end. Split end broken across two rivet holes, convex sides tapering to a point with no trace of animal head terminal. Decorated with a longitudinal line of 6 stamped dots, with two additional dots to each side. Very worn and distorted. Length 39mm. Width 11.5mm. Late 8th - 10th century.
Created on: Friday 21st March 2014
Last updated: Thursday 19th March 2015
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-C179C1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Late Saxon silver tongue-shaped strap-end of Thomas's Class E, Type 5, apparently re-used as a brooch. The attachment edge is recessed on the front, with a separate rectangular front-plate to secure the (missing) strap. It is attached with four rivets with rounded heads (one head missing), each surrounded by an annulet made from twisted silver wire. The plate is cast in low relief within a border following the edge consisting of a pair of ridges separated by a groove; a small length of niello survives in the groove, in the centre at the top. Within this border is a sunken field f…
Created on: Monday 14th October 2013
Last updated: Friday 12th June 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Tharston', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4D89C3
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very unusual silver hooked strap-end or socketed hooked tag, shield-shaped plate with split attachment end with two silver rivets, integral hook springs from solid base. 14 x 16mm. Weighs 2.40g. 8th-11th century.
Created on: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 21st August 2013
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-BA23F4
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end of Thomas' Class A, Type 5. Double-notched upper edge, split-end, the front part now missing, and two attachment holes (one broken).There is a casting flaw in the form of a sub-circular blind hole in the centre of the back-plate revealed by the missing front-plate. The sides of the plate taper slightly to an animal-head terminal with circular ears, each with an indented dot and crescent, and bulging eliptical eyes either side of the narrowed, blunt-ended snout. Decoration of the plate consists of a beaded borer on either edge with a blind ho…
Created on: Wednesday 14th August 2013
Last updated: Wednesday 15th January 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-262D73
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end, Thomas' (2003) Class A. Split-end, convex sides, probably originally with an animal head terminal although now too worn and damaged to discern the features. A rectangular panel on the plate may depict a beast originally reserved on an inlaid field. The attachment edge is also damaged although it may be broken across a single rivet hole. Length 24mm. Width12.5mm. Circa 9th century. The strap-end is very small for the type, and unfortunately damaged and corroded, making the features difficult to discern.
Created on: Wednesday 7th August 2013
Last updated: Saturday 29th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-4A5A18
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy Winchester Style strap-end, Thomas's (2004) Class E, Type 1. Recessed attachment end with separate rectangular sheet on front edge secured by two rivets. Tongue-shaped plate with deeply cast decoration on the front face only consisting of a transverse rib before symmetrical stylised foliage in the form of loops and scrolls eminating from a central stem which projects slightly beyond the end of the plate forming a terminal knop. Length 58mm. Width 25mm. Late 9th - early 11th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th May 2013
Last updated: Monday 22nd December 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barnham Broom', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-39BEC1
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Middle or Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end, Thomas' (2003) Class A, Type 5. Damaged and incomplete split-end with the remains of two rivets, slightly convex sides, very worn en-face animal head terminal with prominent ears. The plate is decorated with a symetrical design consisting of three sets of opposed spirals eminating and comma-shaped fields eminating from a central branch. Wear and corrosion makes the exact eliments of the design difficult to decipher, but inlaid silver wire and probably niello (now missing) have been used. 9th - 10th century. Length 47mm. Width 12mm.
Created on: Wednesday 15th May 2013
Last updated: Saturday 29th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Billingford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-A9C0E0
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy strap-end. Thomas' (2003) Class uncertain as it does not display the characteristic features of any one class, but a combination of interlace (Class B, Type 5), waisted split end with convex sides (Class D), possible enamel or niello and animal head terminal (Class A and B). Narrow plate, broken accorss two rivet holes at the expanded split-end, slight constriction between split-end and lower part of plate creating bi-convex sides, very worn animal head terminal with oval ears. The plate is divided into two decorative fields, one on the expanded split-end, t…
Created on: Thursday 31st January 2013
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: NMS-53C1A2
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy Winchester style tongue-shaped strap-end. Split end now filled with iron corrosion from two iron rivets, double sided openwork decoration depicting stylised foliage consisting of transverse ridges and symmetrically placed holes terminating in a jagged lower edge with short, worn projections with cusps between, with a small part of the lower edge missing. Despite the broken appearance the lower edge is almost certainly complete or nearly complete (Rogerson, A. and Ashley, S. in Naylor 2013, 278 - 280). Surviving length 29mm. Width 19mm. Late 9th - 11th century. A6.
Created on: Monday 22nd October 2012
Last updated: Friday 7th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Morley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-F64615
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Description: Copper-alloy strap-end of Thomas's Class A, Type 5, broadly 9th century in date. It is convex-sided, and the entire strap-end is in the form of a stylised animal head without a body. The split attachment end retains two silver rivets with large circular heads; the attachment end is shaped around these and has a small point in the centre. The animal head has elongated triangular ears which terminate at the attachment end and can be read as scrolling around (although the 'scroll' is a rather rectangular raised area) to include the silver rivets and to form the bi-convex att…
Created on: Tuesday 13th March 2012
Last updated: Wednesday 16th April 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Wretham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-E8D074
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Middle to Late Anglo-Saxon silver strap-end. Most is missing, with a transverse break across the tapering plate leaving only a tiny section of the main decorative panel, which depicts foliate Trewhiddle-style tendrils. The animal-head terminal has circular ears, each with a crescentic groove. Below the ears it is chamfered to either side to form the snout; within these chamfers are two small blind holes for eyes. Between the chamfers is a roughly lozengiform panel whose upper point extends up between the ears to end in a small circle. This panel is decorated with a decayed niello inla…
Created on: Monday 31st October 2011
Last updated: Saturday 22nd February 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Honingham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-EE4F04
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
Fragment of worn and corroded copper alloy Class A (Thomas, 2003, 2) strap end. Split end with two large silver disc headed rivets, below which the object is broken. The decoration consists of traces of engraved lines around the rivets and a fragment of niello. The silver rivets comprise at least 10% of the surviving object. Late Saxon. Length at least 11.5mm, width at least 15.5mm, thickness 4.5mm, weight 1.87g.
Created on: Thursday 15th July 2010
Last updated: Friday 28th March 2014
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Great Dunham', grid reference and parish protected.