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Finds from Wirral<\/h1>\n

EARLY MEDIEVAL strap end<\/h4>\n

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Look into the eyes of one of our finds dated AD800-1100. <\/div>\n
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Portable Antiquities Scheme Statement<\/h5>\n
\nA mostly complete copper alloy early medieval zoomorphic strap end dating to c.AD 800-1100. Thomas class B4d.<\/strong>The plate is narrow, with concave sides and sub rectangular cross section. The terminal is lozenge shaped and moulded into a stylised animal head. The front of the terminal is decorated with annulet eyes and a pointed snout. The body is decorated with horizontal grooves with a second pair of annulet eyes at the end. The back end flares and flattens with two circular cut outs at the end for rivets. The reverse is undecorated. The object has a dark brown patina.<\/p>\n

Dimensions: Length 37.83mm; width 8.77mm; thickness 2.44mm; weight 2g<\/p>\n

The strap end fits within Thomas’s class B4d which is characterised by parallel sides and animal head terminals with two stylised heads.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Read all about it at the Portable Antiquities Scheme on the link below. <\/div>\n
https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1052558<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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The rivet end has a surviving rivet and a hole where the second missing rivet has disappeared Dated AD750-950 https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1144233","rel":"","context":"In "Finds"","block_context":{"text":"Finds","link":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/category\/finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Strap End","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strap_end_1144233.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strap_end_1144233.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strap_end_1144233.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strap_end_1144233.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strap_end_1144233.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2211,"url":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/strap-end-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":1153,"position":4},"title":"Strap End","author":"Wirral Archaeology","date":"25\/06\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Finds from Wirral - Strap End This is the final strap end in our collection. 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At the rivet end you can see the traces of two rivet holes. https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1052558 \u00a0","rel":"","context":"In "Finds"","block_context":{"text":"Finds","link":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/category\/finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Strap End","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strap_end_1052558.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strap_end_1052558.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strap_end_1052558.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strap_end_1052558.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/strap_end_1052558.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2246,"url":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/whetstone\/","url_meta":{"origin":1153,"position":5},"title":"Whetstone","author":"Wirral Archaeology","date":"30\/06\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Finds From Wirral - Whetstone Found when field walking near to where Early Medieval finds had previously been recovered this little whetstone has been dated from AD 800-1400. Very similar items have been recovered from Viking York and would have been worn on a strap. https:\/\/finds.org.uk\/database\/artefacts\/record\/id\/1158343","rel":"","context":"In "Finds"","block_context":{"text":"Finds","link":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/category\/finds\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Whetstone","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Wetstone_1158343.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Wetstone_1158343.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Wetstone_1158343.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Wetstone_1158343.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Wetstone_1158343.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1321,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions\/1321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wirralarchaeology.org\/pages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}