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Description: | A cast copper-alloy stirrup terminal from an early medieval stirrup. The terminal has the characteristic hollow back cited by Williams (1997, 1) where the iron stirrup would have slotted into the terminal. The hollow back also contains the remains of a lead solder with which the terminal would have been attached to the stirrup. Slight traces of iron corrosion also remain within this product. The obverse of the find is decorated, although it is quite worn and the original extent of the decoration is difficult to determine. The terminal does not seem to be quite so elaborate as many of the examples illustrated in Williams' account, and the 'snout' runs diagonally almost straight from the bulbed brow. Above this brow seven bands of raised vertical ridges can just be discerned. The terminal measures 24.4 mm in length and 10.4 mm wide. A number of examples are illustrated in Williams' Finds Datasheet article (published by the Finds Research Group, 1997) although this example does not have an exact parallel there. It is closest to those illustrated in figure 4, examples a and b. The find probably dates to the second half of the 11th century AD.
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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