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Description: | Seventeenth century cast copper alloy stirrup fragment. The fragment consists of the strap bar and cover and part of one side. The rest is lost to old breaks. The strap bar is offset from the top of the sides. The sides of this offset are 19.8mm wide by 20.3mm long and decorated with incised four petaled flowers within a border of punched circles. The strap bar is covered by a decorative rectangular front plate with a raised pointed oval shape in the middle and two large lobed knops (one broken) flanking two smaller semi circular projections at the top and four semi circular projections at the bottom. It is 36.9mm long, 40.8mm wide and 5.8mm thick. It is decorated with punched and incised decoration including a flower on the raised oval section which is surrounded by a border of punched circles and flanked by smaller flowers made of punched circles surounded by several ovals of punched circles. The sides are rectangular in section and unusually wide (19.2mm by 4.0mm thick). They are decorated with panels containing an incised four petaled flower surrounded by a border of incised oval leaves or ovate shapes. One complete panel and part of a second remains.The use of copper alloy rather than the more usual iron and the elaborate decoration on this stirrup suggests it was an item for display. It is 42.5mm long, 68.1mm wide, 22.8mm thick and weighs 68 grams.
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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