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-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-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-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-C20698
Object type: STRAP END
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Published
A silver tongue-shaped composite strap-end. The outer sheet plates are soldered to the spacer, which terminates in an acorn knop, the cup of which is decorated with (rather abraded) stamped annulets. One prong of the spacer is now detached, and there is some damage to the sides of the plates, which taper in straight lines towards the knop. The attachment edge is missing, but enough is extant to indicate a grooved round aperture in the centre. Almost identical engraved decoration on both plates near the attachment edge consists of a pear-shaped fruit between two curving stems ending in…
Created on: Tuesday 11th January 2011
Last updated: Tuesday 7th July 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Upwell', 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.