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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy stirrup strap mount, of Williams' Class B (Williams 1997, 85ff.). Only the lower part of this strap mount now survives, the rest is missing due to an old break. The surviving fragment is rectangular in shape (as would the strap mount have been if complete), measuring 30.94mm in width and 20.50mm in surviving height. The angled flange is complete with two lower fixing holes, these are filled with corroded iron and on the back face of the flange the remains of an iron fitting or strap can be seen. Above the flange there are two parallel oval shaped holes, also with remains of corroded iron within them, they were presumably part of the openwork decoration of this strap mount. Above these there are two larger incomplete holes, in between which there is the remains of a projecting zoomorphic head, now very worn,which would have originally have been mouse or bat like in appearance. The incomplete sides are straight and parallel. This incomplete stirrup strap mount is late Anglo-Saxon, probably 11th century in date.
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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