https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/templates/general_wide/img/logo.png https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/ https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/strap-ends.html https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/strap-ends/strap-end-hooked-58958.html Sun, 26 Oct 2025 18:31:21 GMT Strap-ends  

Description:		An Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic strap-end of Thomas Class B, Type 7 (see ref below). The projecting flared attachment end is a singular plate, and the two rivet holes for attachment onto the strap are damaged and incomplete. The central section has decorative bands of transverse grooves at each end, and the terminal is in the form of a very stylised animal head with a narrow elongated snout which has been formed into a rearward facing hook. Examples of this lesser known type from stratified archaeological contexts suggest that it was introduced about the end of the 8th or the beginning of the 9th century and remained popular into the 11th century.
Category:		Early Medieval, Strap-ends
Category:		Strap-ends

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/strap-ends/strap-end-58901.html Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:19:57 GMT Strap-ends  

Description:		An Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic strap-end of Thomas Class B, Type 2 (see References below). The wedge-shaped attachment end is split to accommodate the strap, which was secured by two rivets. However, the two rivet holes are now broken open and vacant. The front of the wedge-shaped end is decorated with a Trewhiddle-style animal design, but the detail is unclear on the images. The body is of parallel, D-shaped cross-section and appears to be plain. The terminal end is moulded in the form of an animal-head with long rearward-facing ears and a rounded snout.
Category:		Early Medieval, Strap-ends
Category:		Strap-ends

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/strap-ends/strap-fitting-58354.html Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:00:50 GMT Strap-ends  

Description:		A small gilt copper-alloy strap fitting, most likely a strap-end dating to the late Anglo-Saxon period. The face is decorated with an incised cross-hatched design, and much of the surface gilding survives. The plate is cast with a bifurcated end that is pierced for two copper-alloy attachment rivets, one of which remains in situ. The terminal end is now incomplete, with the short remains of a projection located each side of centre. No exact parallel has been traced to date, but the style is consistent with later Anglo-Saxon strap fittings. The projections could have once formed part of a composite hinge assembly, or are possibly the side wall remains of a central aperture once formed at the terminal end.
Category:		Early Medieval, Strap-ends
Category:		Strap-ends

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/strap-ends/strap-end-fragment-58218.html Wed, 18 Sep 2024 11:07:05 GMT Strap-ends  

Description:		The attachment or butt end only of a late Anglo-Saxon strap-end of Thomas Class E. The fragment is bifurcated for the strap and has two rivet holes, one of which retains a copper-alloy rivet. The front is decorated with multiple ring-and-dot motifs, the four innermost within an incised linear frame across which the strap-end has broken. The back is plain. Cf. PAS: NLM-352AF8
Category:		Early Medieval, Strap-ends
Category:		Strap-ends

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/strap-ends/strap-end-26993.html Mon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMT Strap-ends  

Description:		An Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic strap-end of Thomas Class A Type 5 (see ref. below). The attachment end is split to accommodate the strap, and has two rivet holes. The central decorative panel is rectangular and has the remains of niello or enamel infill and four silver wire coils set in a straight line to its centre. There are punched scale patterns above the stylised animal-head terminal and within an incised border at the attachment end.
Category:		Early Medieval, Strap-ends
Category:		Strap-ends

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/strap-ends/strap-end-57982.html Fri, 03 May 2024 13:59:07 GMT Strap-ends  

Description:		An incomplete Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic strap-end of Thomas Class B, Type 5 (see reference below). The split attachment end is now missing and only the lower part survives. To the face, a singular panel is decorated with an interlaced ribbon design of Scandinavian influence. The raised and pointed animal-head terminal is very stylised with additional transverse grooving. This strap-end is of an uncommon variety and dominant to the north of England. For comparison purposes, few complete examples exist, especially with the devolved and raised zoomorphic terminal as above. Rather oddly, more bent and broken examples have been recovered. Reference: Gabor Thomas 'A Survey of Anglo-Saxon and Viking-Age Strap-Ends from Britain'. A complete example of this strap-end type is catalogued, Fig. 3.2: Type B5 (G). See NLM-ADFA0B as a near identical broken example from North Lincolnshire. See also; SWYOR-2633C4, YORYM-4FD9F3, PUBLIC-11A2FD (Yorkshire) & SWYOR-8D4385
Category:		Early Medieval, Strap-ends
Category:		Strap-ends

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/strap-ends/strap-end-29209.html Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT Strap-ends  

Description:		An Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic strap-end of Thomas Class A, Type 1. Haldenby Group 4. (see ref below). The attachment end is incomplete and split to accommodate the strap, and has two partly remaining rivet holes to secure it. The central section has engraved Trewhiddle-style animal decoration. The terminal is in the form of a stylised animal-head with rearward-facing ears. The reverse is plain.
Category:		Early Medieval, Strap-ends
Category:		Strap-ends

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/strap-ends/strap-end-40029.html Thu, 20 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT Strap-ends  

Description:		An Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic strap-end of Thomas Class A, Type 1. It would appear to be a reversed variety of Haldenby Group 4, in which the disarticulated animal form is similar, but reversed. (see References below). The attachment end is split to accommodate the strap, but it has broken across the two rivet holes and the rear leaf is missing. The front of this end is decorated with an incised palmette. The central section has engraved Trewhiddle-style decoration, depicting a left-facing animal, looking backwards, its neck dividing its body. The design is characteristic of strap-ends of this particular group, which mostly come from Yorkshire and were probably made in York. Traces of an inlay, probably niello, are present in the field around the animal. The terminal is in the form of a stylised animal-head with a rounded snout. The reverse is plain.
Category:		Early Medieval, Strap-ends
Category:		Strap-ends

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/strap-ends/strap-end-32480.html Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMT Strap-ends  

Description:		An Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic strap-end of Thomas Class A, Type 1, Haldenby Group 4. (see References below). The attachment end is split to accommodate the strap, and has two rivet holes, both of which retain copper-alloy rivets. The front of this end is decorated with an incised palmette. The central section has engraved Trewhiddle-style decoration, depicting a right-facing animal, looking backwards, its neck dividing its body. The design is characteristic of strap-ends of this particular group, which mostly come from Yorkshire and were probably made in York. Traces of an inlay, probably niello, are present in the field around the animal. The terminal is in the form of a stylised animal-head with a rounded snout, moulded eyes and rearward-facing ears. The reverse is plain.
Category:		Early Medieval, Strap-ends
Category:		Strap-ends

]]> https://www.ukdfd.co.uk/artefact/early-medieval/strap-ends/strap-end-12584.html Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:00:00 GMT Strap-ends  

Description:		A late Saxon strap-end of Thomas Class E, Type 1. It is decorated in the Winchester style, which at its finest has confronted pairs of naturalistic birds or animals and plant-scroll motifs, but often degenerates into the more simplified openwork pattern represented here. It is an example of the double-sided type, and has a single rivet at the attachment end. The openwork is symmetrical, and four pairs of irregularly shaped openings survive. However, a small piece with further openwork has broken off the rounded distal end.
Category:		Early Medieval, Strap-ends
Category:		Strap-ends

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