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Description: | Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 9, with relief decoration of a human face. The loop at the top is broken (fairly worn break) but at the bottom a groove can be seen which ran around the loop and then extended at the bottom to form a V. Just below this are grooved eyebrows which turn up at the outer ends to form small projections. Below are large round eyes made up of a wide circular band around a small pellet, with a nose between which continues the ridge (though not the groove) of the eyebrows. There are some bands of simplified ?interlace either side of the end of the nose. Below this details are hard to read, as corrosion from an iron rivet either side of the chin has spread over the area. There is a very narrow high-relief chin, at the top of which two short vertical relief bands may represent the groove between nose and mouth. The sides of the mount have scrolled relief bands which may represent hair. At the bottom is a flange turned through right angles, which projects further in the centre than at the sides. Anglo-Scandinavian, 11th century. | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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