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Description: | Early Medieval 11th century Viking stirrup mount, incomplete, Williams Class A Type 12 (Williams, 1997, ??Late Saxon Stirrup??Strap Mounts??, CBA Res Rep 111, p69 & pp71-74). Lozenge-shaped openwork mount with central diagonal cross with a lozenge shaped aperture in each quarter. There is a circular boss at the centre of the cross and at each junction of the cross with the frame, and at the side and bottom corners of the frame ?? a total of eight bosses in all. The apex of the mount, which would have formed a loop, is missing, broken off just above the upper junctions of the cross with the frame. The flange at the base projects at c. 90??, and is broken across a single rivet hole, which has no traces of iron around. Length (broken) 27.75mm, width 30.25mm, thickness across flange 9.3mm, thickness at break 3.5mm, thickness across central boss 4.8mm, weight 10.26g. | Subjects: | mount | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Atherton, Rachel - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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