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Description: | Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A Type 5. It has the usual basic pentagonal shape, with a pair of scrolled tendrils on the upper two edges divided from the pentagon by grooves. The tendrils meet at the apex to form a stylised animal head, with ears, brow, relief eyes and an open mouth in which the edge of the flat pierced circular loop is held. The base is turned back at right angles to form a flange, which is 9 mm deep in the centre but which has a rectangle cut out of both corners reducing the depth of the flange to 4-5 mm. The flange is unpierced, but there is a central circular hole through the pentagon just above it. There is no trace of any iron corrosion. This mount is unusual in surviving complete, and also unusual in not having any decoration on the pentagon. It is corroded so that almost all of the surface is missing, leaving a rough mid brown patina, and so it is just possible that there was originally some lightly engraved decoration. This usually takes the form either of interlaced animals or of a decorative border.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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