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Description: | This object is an unusual late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap mount. It is complete, made of copper alloy and is roughly triangular in shape, with a length of 49mm and a width of 25mm. On its back face the base of the mount has an angled flange, projecting at about a 45 degree angle. There are two parallel lower fixing holes, these both have the remains of corroded iron rivets within them. On the back face there is also the corroded remains of what seems likely to have been an iron fitting. The front face of the mount has a boarder groove and is slightly convex, the back face is undecorated and flat. The lower three quarters of the mount is triangular in shape but instead of tapering to a point the top of the mount, it has three almost cylindrical projections, each one is 15mm in length and 7mm in width. They have are waisted just before their terminals and are arranged at 90 degrees to each other around a central fixing hole, which again has corroded iron remains within it. Similar stirrup strap mounts have been discovered in Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and Suffolk, William's designates them as Class A Type 14. However these examples have motifs on the lower half of the mount and the terminals of the 'arms' are debased zoomorphic heads, this is not so clearly the case with this example, although it is possible that the zoomorphic features have worn away (Williams 1997, 75-76, Fig 49). | Subjects: | Strap mount CLASS A type 14. | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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