Accession No
1903.188 A
Description
Incomplete strap end frame of copper alloy. Circular aperture with forked spacers and one shorter prong. Flanged and collared acorn terminal at one end.
Place
Europe; British Isles; England; Cambridgeshire; Fordham
Period
Medieval
Source
Cambridge Antiquarian Society [monetary donor]; Bland [vendor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1903.188 A
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
45mm
Events
Description (Labels & Markings)
Small handwritten paper label reading in black ink: '(Bland)'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Context (Display)
Previously mounted on plain paper-wrapped display board, upper part now broken off and missing, with handwritten label reading in black ink: 'Strap-ends. [crossed out with blue ink: 1. Undley, Suff.] 2. Fordham, Camb. *Camb. At. Soc. (2) A.03.188 A' and on the back handwritten in pencil: '[crossed out with blue ink: 1. Undley] 2. Fordham'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Context (Field collection)
Found: Neighbourhood of Fordham.
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Oval with forked tang and acorn terminal.
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Accession Register: 'Portion of a bronze spur and other fragments.'
Event Date 1903
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
'Also found numbered 1903.188 is a bronze boss, solid cast in the round in the form of segments, not unlike flower petals, with a central perforation.' [now 1903.188 C, Jan-Henrik Hartung, 24/11/2023]
Event Date 17/8/2001
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Context (CMS Context)
This may be the stirrup-mount listed in (Bib): Williams, David. 1997. 'Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts: A Classification and Catalogue.' CBA Research Report 111. York: Council for British Archaeology, p. 65, no. 241.
Event Date 6/2/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn
Description (Physical description)
Incomplete strap end frame of copper alloy. Circular aperture with forked spacers and one shorter prong. Flanged and collared acorn terminal at one end.
Event Date 24/11/2023
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:15980
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