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Description: | Early medieval stirrup mount; cast copper alloy stirrup mount of Viking design, dating from the period 1025-1100. This mount can be identified as being of Williams' Class A, Type 8. The mount is sub-triangular in shape with a small plate extending out backwards from the base of the triangle. The triangle is extended down to either side of this plate to form a knop at both bottom corners. These knops are debased animal heads, although they bear little indication of that in this example. The face of the mount is decorated with indented panels, some of which have the remains of enamelling. The remaining enamel seems dark green, although it may have discoloured over time. At the centre of the mount, near the top, the head of a large rivet can be seen, although it has been sheared off on the reverse. There is much rust-coloured corrosion around the rivet head, indicating that it is made of an iron-rich metal. Similarly, on the reverse of the mount, a large area of rust-coloured corrosion can be seen around the base plate, indicating that the fixing rivets there were also of an iron-rich metal. Height 39.5mm, width 27.4mm, thickness (base plate) 9.6mm, thickness (mount) 4.1mm, weight 19.86g Ref: Williams, pages 47-51
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