Silver strap end with a panel of niello ornamented with zoomorphic design on the obverse, from Talnotrie, Kirkcudbrightshire, 9th century

Silver strap end with rivet, from Traprain Law

Terminal part of a thin silver band or strap with rounded end, from Traprain Law

Twenty three silver-gilt studs attached to fragments of a leather strap, from Traprain Law, East Lothian, 410 - 425 AD

Bronze strap end with rounded terminals in form of cross, from Birsay, Orkney

Gilt bronze strap end with Ringerike decoration, from Jarlshof, Shetland, 1000 - 1100

Bronze fragment, possibly of an Irish reliquary mount, reused as a strap end, from Freswick Links, Caithness

Bronze strap end with English Urnes style decoration, from Freswick Links, Caithness

Strap end of bronze from Sandside Links, Caithness, Viking period, 800 - 1100 AD

Bronze strap end, one of two made from flat strips, from a grave of a woman and infant, Westness, Rousay, Orkney

Anglo-Saxon bronze strap end decorated on the face with three animal masks in fairly high relief, from Hurly Hawkin, Angus, 800 - 900 AD

Strap of plaited brown thread decorated with inserted rows of white beads and with tags of quillwork and dyed horsehair, silver cones covering the junction: North America, Plains

Fossil gastropod, Straparollus sp., from the Carboniferous Period of Millicent, County Kildare, Ireland

Strap end, Anglo-Saxon, found at Crichton, Midlothian

[One of] Three strap ends and a mount, Coldingham, Berwickshire

[One of] Three strap ends and a mount, Coldingham, Berwickshire