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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams' Class A type 10c (Williams 1997, 58). This mount is sub triangular in shape, its apex loop is missing due to an old break. It is 36mm in surviving length and 34mm in width, the front face is slightly rounded and the back face is slightly hollow. The front face of this mount is decorated with a coiled animal but it is now worn and the orientation of the animal is not clear, indeed the openwork effect appears to have been drilled rather than cast. The decoration reflects the Urnes style influence. There are two large circular fixing holes near to the lower edge, they are c5.5mm in diameter with corroded iron in around them. This strap mount has no flange, but does have two roughly triangular shaped projections from both of the corners of the lower edge. These projections are debased animal heads with heavy brows and rounded tapering snouts. It is these projections which Williams' uses to characterise type 10c. Very similar mounts of type 10c have also been discovered in Gisleham, Suffolk, and Burgate Suffolk and Nantwich, Cheshire. They are all late Anglo Saoxn in date (Williams 1997, 56-58, fig 38).
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