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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