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Description: | A copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of probable 11th century AD date. No exact match could be found for this piece, but its form is most closely paralleled with those of Williams Class A, type 11B (D. Williams; 1997; pp. 66-7).
The mount has a flat bottom edge and slightly convex vertical sides which extend into a rounded top edge. It is of an openwork design and depicts an animal (most of the lesser corroded examples of this type appear to be lions) standing left, its right forepaw raised, its head facing right and touching the upward-curled tail. The apex loop is simple in form, being roughly semi-circular in plan, with a central aperture and no ornamentation. At the base of the mount, just above the level of the backward-facing right-angled flange, are two circular fixing holes.
The surfaces of the object are heavily corroded. It measures 51mm high, 32.2mm wide and 7.2mm deep. The weight is 27.33g. | Subjects: | type 11b variant Williams Class A Stirrup-strap | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Watters, Julian - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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