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Description: | Copper-alloy stirrup strap-mount, Williams 1997 Class A unclassified. Sub-triangular with a pair of debased animal head projections in the bottom corners. Niello decoration, now silver/grey, standing proud of the surface. The decoration consists of a central triquetra with a longitudinal line extending from it to the apex, with curving lines either side of the top and bottom. Border of pair of lines with transverse lines. Trace of rivet hole, but upper part missing. Two iron rivets intact along the lower edge, with heavy corrosion on the upper surface. Much iron corrosion above the shallow flange on the reverse.
L: 45 W: 35.5 Wt: 24.98g
An almost identical example was found at Brewood, Staffs. (Williams 1997, 80 no. 372 fig. 51) | Subjects: | Williams Class A Strap-mount unclassified Anglo-Saxon | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Worrell, Sally - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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