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Description: | Fragmentary cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount; diagonal breakage across what would originally have been a sub-triangular curving openwork plate with slightly bulging sides; decoration cast in relief on front; reverse has a slight lip at the lateral edges; pair of circular attachment holes in the bottom corners and a single copper alloy driven centrally through plate; because the mount is fragmentary the symmetrical design cannot be fully reconstructed, it is primarily based upon two confronted looping animal bodies or possibly tendrils which touch toward the middle of the plate, a further tendril or interlacing body cuts across the top of the L.H. loop below the breakage, in sub-triangular field located beneath and between the central looping elements are a series of short radiating grooves possibly representing a foliate frond; traces of gilding survive in the recessed surfaces of the decoration; the basic form and decoration of this mount may be paralleled by various stirrup-strap mounts including Williams' Class A Type 7, though the lack of a basal flange suggests that this mount could have served a different function, the use of gilding is also unusual on this class of artefact. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ | Publisher: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Rights holder: | The Portable Antiquities Scheme | Subjects: | archaeology | Temporal: | 1000
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Gabor Thomas | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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