Record ID: WILT-703B50
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded medieval two piece strap fitting, probably a bar mount. The strap fitting is rectangular, with rounded corners. It is formed of a pair of sheets, held together by two rivets; one at each end. The rivets are flattened but uneven. The strap fitting is plain, and both plates are covered in a dark green patina with patches of lighter corrosion. It measures 32.8mm x 10.5mm x 3.1mm, and weighs 2.99g. It can be compared to examples illustrated in Margeson 1993 (39; 22), dated to the 15th-16th century.
Created on: Thursday 16th April 2009
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lavington CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-8A61A2
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A plain elongated pentagonal strap loop with a separate (missing) rivet. Rivet hole in side opposite pentagon point. Egan and Pritchard (1991, 231) note that five sided strap loops have only been found with internally pointing rivets, to hold something within the strap loop. Mainly dated to the late 14th century. External: 13.4mm x 11.5; Internal: 11.2mm x 8.3mm; thickness: 2.3; weight: 0.81g
Created on: Friday 17th April 2009
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'West Lavington CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-FB90E5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A medieval cast copper alloy bar mount for a strap or belt. It is rectangular, with three holes; two small holes (one at each end) for attachment and a larger hole between for decoration. The large hole has been counter-sunk from the front of the mount, the smaller holes from the reverse. The large hole is off-centre, cutting into one of the transverse engraved zig zag lines on the front face of the mount. This mount would have one of a set, as shown in Egan and Pritchard (1991 212, fig. 133 ref. 1132). They date similar bar mounts to the late 13th to early 14th century. This example m…
Created on: Wednesday 10th June 2009
Last updated: Friday 28th April 2017
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Record ID: WILT-A29AF3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: IRON AGE
County: Gloucestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy strap slide of Late Iron Age to Early Roman date (c. 100 BC-c. AD 100). The head is circular in plan. At the front, it has a flat rim with a concave centre and at the rear, excluding the loop, it is slightly convex. There is a small loss on the rim. The loop (11.9mm x 6.4mm x 3.6mm) on the reverse is ‘D’-shaped in side profile and sub-square in cross-section, the hole is sub-ovoid. The object is covered in a mid-green patina, with patches of a light green patina. The concave head may have contained a decorative material. However, none has survived. It i…
Created on: Thursday 18th June 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 30th August 2016
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Record ID: WILT-3835C1
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval copper alloy sword belt fitting. The object is roughly foliate in form, with incised decoration forming a leaf pattern. It has a trefoil shaped terminal at one end and would have had a hook at the other but this is now missing. There are two circular fixing holes one near the trefoil terminal and one visible in the break, which would have been above the hook. This would have been one of two or three fittings that together formed a hanging arrangement for a sword, date 16th-17th century. It measures 29.2mm and weighs 4.8g
Created on: Thursday 25th June 2009
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Urchfont CP', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: WILT-38D493
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete medieval copper alloy composite strap end. One of the plates is missing, revealing the inner forked spacer still attached to the other plate. The remaining plate is undecorated. At one end the strap end curves inwards to a point (the tip of which has broken off the plate but remains on the spacer). At the opposite end the plate has broken or worn away to a rough diagonal, with the spacer protruding beyond. There are two rivets in situ on the strap end, one at the either end (and one of which that connects the plate to the spacer). The spacer is thicken than the plate but …
Created on: Thursday 25th June 2009
Last updated: Friday 21st July 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Urchfont CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: WILT-F97B72
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A worn post medieval copper-alloy strap fitting with two attachment spikes. The body of the mount is an elongated triangle with a rounded knop instead of a point. On the shortest edge is a tri-lobed knop, which could be a crown or a fleur-de-lis. The outer lobes have been bent backwards, and the tip of the central knop has possibly broken off. On the triangular body of the mount has incised lines creating arrows pointing towards the tri-lobed terminal. No other decoration is visable. On the reverse, there is an attachment spike (c. 9mm long)just to the central of the rounded knop term…
Created on: Thursday 3rd September 2009
Last updated: Thursday 6th October 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cricklade area', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LON-134684
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper alloy belt or strap attachment. The attachment is formed of a plate with a keyhole shaped cut out in the centre. This would have been one half a connective attachment; the other half would have had a mushroom shaped protrusion which would have slide inside the hole and been held in the narrower part of the hole. One end of the main plate is rounded with an in situ attachment rivet and irregular heptagon washer. Held between the washer and the plate is the remains of the fabric of the strap, and a dark stain on the plate around the rivet and washer was probably c…
Created on: Friday 21st October 2011
Last updated: Wednesday 30th November 2011
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Record ID: LON-D71476
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy snake or dragon form strap fitting or fastener of post-medieval to modern date. The artefact is 'S-shaped'. The terminals take the form of the neck and head of dragon like animal with clear ears, eyes, an upturned snout and open jaw. The neck is thin, of pointed-oval section and forms a broad curve. At the centre of the object, dividing the two animals, is a convex moulding with two projection points moulded in the round. An area of scales or pine cone like decoration flanks the central disc on each side. One neck area is heavily worn, suggesting that side took the weig…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2012
Last updated: Friday 22nd November 2019
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Record ID: LON-25B023
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete post medieval sword belt fitting, with the hook attachment missing. The object is roughly triangular in plan, with decoration forming a leaf-like and foliate pattern. It has a trefoil shaped terminal at one end and would have had a hook at the other but this is now missing. There is a small, circular fixing hole in the trefoil terminal and one above the hook which has been the weak-point for fracture; the plate is now broken across this rivet hole. The front of the plate is slightly convex and the back is flat; the fitting is now curved in profile due to wear. The fittin…
Created on: Thursday 3rd May 2012
Last updated: Tuesday 12th June 2012
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Record ID: LON-6175C3
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Greater London Authority
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A post medieval copper alloy sword belt fitting compromising of two roughly linear attachment arms connected at one end. The two arms are identically shaped and decorated with an attachment hook on the curve that connects them. From the attachment curve each arm has two horizontal border which project out of each side by approximately 2mm. Between the two borders the edges are convex and there is an in-situ rivet in the centre of each section (one of which has a rough disc of hammered metal on the reverse; maximum length of rivet is 5.9mm). Beyond the second border the next section on…
Created on: Wednesday 30th November 2011
Last updated: Monday 7th March 2016
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Record ID: LON-603552
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An early post medieval cast copper alloy toggle clasp. The clasp is moulded in one piece with moulded relief, engraved and openwork decoration. It measures 36.7mm long x 181.mm wid x 3.1 thick and weighs 5.8g. A very similar example can be seen in Read (2008, ref. 754), dated to c. 1500 to 1700 AD.
Created on: Monday 11th June 2012
Last updated: Friday 8th September 2017
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Record ID: HAMP-494402
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A corroded post-medieval copper-alloy strap-fitting from a sword belt, with corroded remnants of two iron rivets. It comprises a curvilinear section with three projections on each side and one smaller projection on one end, attached to a broken circular section (15.9mm by 9.4mm remaining) with a slot through its centre, which tends towards cruciform. Adjacent to one side of the circular section is a smaller circular loop (10.1 mm by 9.2mm), which is at an obtuse angle from the curvilinear section. The circular section and loop are bent, curving upwards from the curvilinear section. The…
Created on: Monday 19th January 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Amport CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-CEB4A0
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: ROMAN
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper-alloy late Roman 'propeller' belt stiffener; usually associated with the late Roman military, they continue to be used into the early fifth century. They are common site finds especially along the Northern frontiers (Bishop and Coulston 1993, 173-4; refs. 3 and 5). 'Propeller' belt stiffeners have a central roundel and two opposing triangular terminals. This example is flat, with a circular rivet hole through the centre of the end of the triangular terminals. One rivet survives in the hole, protruding 3.8mm from the back of the fitting. The centre roundel is deco…
Created on: Friday 27th March 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Preston Candover CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-C2CDE5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A bent and incomplete post-medieval cast copper-alloy hooked plate probably from a sword-belt mount. The body of the object is ovoid, with perforated semicircular protrusion at one end, and the broken shaft of the hook at the other. The tag depicts a helmeted and bearded man looking right, with a trefoil shaped object (an arrow? or leaf?) attached to the top of his helmet, through which a second attachment hole is pierced. On either side of the bar attaching the trefoil is a pellet, and there are two raised but corroded areas to either side of the man's neck. The lower surface is plai…
Created on: Thursday 14th May 2009
Last updated: Tuesday 30th April 2019
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Record ID: HAMP-3ED5F5
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete medieval copper-alloy shell-shaped belt mount with rivet and rove. On the front face of the mount lines and curves have been engraved into the surface, forming the radiating lines mimicking a shell. In the centre the in situ rivet is flush with the surface, but of a lighter green patina, indicating a different alloy. The reverse of the shell is concave, with the rivet and attachment rove protruding from the centre. Similar shell mounts or studs can be found in Egan and Pritchard (1991, 200-201; refs. 1082, 1083) and on this database (YORYM-0AB554) dating to the early to mid …
Created on: Wednesday 20th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 24th February 2011
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Record ID: HAMP-418C48
Object type: STRAP FITTING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete post-medieval copper-alloy two part sword-belt fitting (strap-fitting). The two elements are connected via an integral ring on the smaller element and a hook (possibly with a zoomorphic point or tip) on the larger. The larger piece (length 47.6 mm) is the standard foliate shape found on a number of comparable fittings on the database; it is sub-triangular, with a widening immediately beyond to the hook (although one side has been severely worn), then a sharp narrowing, then widens again, narrows again and ends in the maximum width, with curved corners into a trilobed side e…
Created on: Wednesday 20th May 2009
Last updated: Thursday 21st November 2019
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