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Description: | A corroded and incomplete cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of early Norman (medieval) date (late 11th/early 12th century AD) which can be categorised as a Williams' Class A Type 11A (1997, 58ff.). The mount is sub-triangular in form and is now missing its trilobed apex. The artefact has broken at the point of the apex loop: the uppermost perforation for attachment. There are two further circular holes on the lower edge just above the flange. The flange is of the common right angle type as depicted in Williams (1997, 25; fig. 18A). The lower surface of the mount is concave and plain. The upper surface is decorated with a moulded 'lion' facing to the right within a raised border. The creature looks upwards, with its foreleg raised, and tail curled between its hind legs and over its back. The toes of the paws are picked out as with an example from Berkshire (ibid., 63; ref. 230), as is the lion's mane. Such mounts have been dated to the period c. 1070 to c. 1140 AD (Lewis 2007, 184). The object has corroded to a dark red-brown colour with overlying black corrosion product.
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