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Description: | Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, a variant of Williams 1997 Class A Type 10A. Apex loop missing. Of two fixing holes just above the base one is iron filled. Several details show this to be a variant: the animal head without comma-shaped ears, and with two asymmetrically placed drilled blind holes for eyes; a small lobe on both sides just below the apex loop; on the animal’s body numerous grooves or channels made by, or enhanced with an engraving tool post casting; no flange. >49mm, x 32mm. 11th century. | Subjects: | stirrup strap mount | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Bales, Ellen - Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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