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Description: | Stirrup terminal Early medieval 11th century 32mm long, 9mm wide, 9mm deep The artefact is shaped like an animal head with a narrowed snout at one end. The snout is slightly angled upwards with a ridge running across it on the underside, possibly representing the mouth. The face detail such as eyes and mouth are engraved, but are heavily worn, so little detail remains. Added to this, iron corrosion covers some of the detail on the top of the head. There are two ridges that run across the back of the head/neck, the last ridge separates that main body of the artefact from a plain knop terminal. Hollow underside that would have held the lower edge of the stirrup. dark greenish/brown colour, all of the original surface has corroded away. The artefact is very badly worn. This type of artefact would have been decorative and would have been attached to the bottom corner of a stirrup, artefacts such as this are thought to be Anglo-Scandinavian dating to the 11th century. This particular artefact has been decorated in the Urnes art style.
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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