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Description: | A worn copper-alloy fragment of a late Anglo-Saxon circa 11th century stirrup strap mount. Only the lower part of the mount with a stub of the flange projecting from the back face survives. The fragment is rectangular in shape and measures 26.32mm in surviving height and 40.19mm in width. There are two parallel circular holes above the lower terminal and above these the start of two opposing open work, possibly oval-shaped, holes. The front face is also decorated with a border groove and there is a lozenge shaped groove, between the perforations, with an incised cross within it.
On the back face there is the remains of a stepped flange which is rectangular in shape. Although very little of this mount survives it seems to most resemble Williams Class C group 1 mounts, which are large with a projecting stepped flange and a pair of projecting side lugs, these would have occurred further up the mount and so it is now impossible to know if this mount actually had side lugs or not. However, other features of this Class includ a pair of kidney shaped openings, the bases of which do survive and engraved decoration, which is also present (Williams, 1997, 100-101, fig 62, nos 484-484). | Subjects: | strap mount | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Minter, Faye - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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