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Description: | a late Early Medieval Ringerike-style animal head stirrup terminal. The head is circular with a crest, and consists mostly of an openwork circular 'eye' 9.45mm in diameter, with a marked brow and nose. Grooves on either side help to emphasise the nose. There is a mane forming a crest like that of a cockerel, with four decorative grooved lines running from the head to the crest edges. The back of the head/neck is flat and rectangular. The 'snout' is set at right angles to the neck and extends for 31.8 mm from the neck edge. It is hollow and U-shaped with its edges folded round and becoming almost cylindrical. Traces of a whitish material within the hollow may be the remains of solder by which this terminal was attached to the arm of the lower part of the stirrup. This type of terminal dates to the eleventh century and a similar example from Swafield, Norfolk is illustrated in Margeson 1997, p.36, no.41
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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