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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams' Class A type 9 (Williams 1997, 51-52, fig 35). This mount is worn and missing its apex due to an old break. It is roughly triangular in shape, measuring 29mm in height and 20mm in width. The front face of this mount depicts a human mask with a projecting chin, downward turned mouth and pointed oval shaped eyes. Around the cheeks and arching across the eyes are interlacing ribbons which end in scrolls, these are now very worn and barely visible. The right angled flange is complete and there are two circular fixing holes above it, one hole has corroded iron within it from the original iron rivet. There is more corroded iron on the back face of the flange which are the remains of an iron fitting or strap. Similar strap mounts of type 9 have also been discovered in Deal, Kent, Metton and Harling, Norfolk they are all late early medieval c1000-1100 in date (Williams 1997, 51-52, fig 35).
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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