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Description: | A cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of late Anglo-Saxon date. It has a closed sub-lozengiform frame sitting on a flat base. Opposite the base is the apex loop (Dia.: 13.0mm); the (iron) rivet is missing. From the apex loop the mount flares out at an angle of forty-five degrees to the longitudinal axis, reaching a maximum width of 30.7mm. From this wide point it narrows at a forty-five degree angle before stabilising at the base, 16.85mm wide. The main, closed lozengiform field is divided into four lozenge-shaped recesses by a raised diagonal cross. The recesses all bear scratch marks. The cross features a central circular pellet. There are further pellets on the same horizontal alignment: two, one at each corner of the diamond. Another pair of pellets is located below the apex loop: one either side of the lozenge. These are aligned with another pair just above the base: again, one either side of the lozenge. There is a further, worn pellet at the base of the lozenge. This arrangement of a total of eight pellets is paralleled in an example illustrated in Williams (1997, 70; ref. 290); more generally, this stirrup-strap mount is of Williams' Class A Type 12. The basal flange is perpendicular to the mount externally, and around 135 degrees to the mount internally. The flange retains the remnant of an iron rivet in its central hole. There remain elements of the iron strap on the reverse surface. This mount survives well, with a uniform dull mid-dark green patina with traces of lighter corrosion, particularly in the recesses. The object is likely to date from the first quarter of the 11th century to the early 12th century (Williams 1997, 8). | Subjects: | strap mount Class A Type 12 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Webley, Robert - Portable Antiquities Scheme | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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