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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A Type 3 (Williams 1997, 36-39, fig 25). Only the lower third of this stirrup strap mount survives the rest is missing due to an old break. As with all Class A mounts this example would have been roughly triangular in shape when complete and has a right angle flange with one central lower circular fixing hole. It measures 23mm in surviving height and 32mm in width. This example is Type 3 as it depicts, using an open work design, a central standing facing man. From what survives you can clearly see the individuals feet and lower legs set apart with the tails of a ribbon-like serpent wrapped around each leg. These have traces of niello and silver wire on them. In between the legs is a rod-like shape which flares slightly towards its terminal and terminates between the feet, this is likely to be an exaggerated stylised phallus. Similar open work type 3 mounts, although more complete have been found in Sherbourne St John, Hants and Thorpe St Andrew, Norfolk (Williams 37 and 39, fig 25).
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