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Description: | A cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount. It is a sub-lozenge shape with a flat base in plan, however the upper corner is now missing. The broken edges are not too recent. The outer face is decorated with three complete and one incomplete lozenge shaped openwork panels, thereby forming a lattice frame. The frame has a high-relief pellet at each junction of the lattice, with the exception of the central lower junction which has a circular hole, possibly a rivet hole. The lower edge on the reverse has an 'L' shaped profile, forming a flange. The reverse is undecorated. The surface of the mount is abraded and there is not trace of the original surface, instead it is a matte dark brown colour, including the broken edges. The mount measures 31.49mm long and 33.54mm wide (measurements are from corner to corner). It weighs 8.7g. The mount is very similar to Williams (1997 Late Saxon Stirrup Mounts: A Classification and Catalogue CBA Research Report 111), nos. 306-316. Therefore it can be classed as a Class A Type 12 (Openwork Version). These mounts tend to date to the 11th century.
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