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Description: | Stirrup terminal made from cast copper alloy. At the top it is a semi-cylindrical tube, originally measuring c. 10 mm wide by 6 mm deep but now with one corner broken off. There is a groove around the open top of the tube. At the bottom it angles out to become rectangular in cross-section, just above a closed end which would have held the corner of the stirrup; no iron from the stirrup, however, survives. Beyond the closed end is a flat trefoil terminal consisting of a large central foil with rounded end, and two smaller side foils which are both slightly bent up in the manner of a fleur-de-lis. The trefoil has deeply engraved, slightly irregular decoration which has been made by rocking an engraving tool very slightly back and forth. The central foil has a pointed oval border, and the two side foils each have a single curving line. The complete terminal is 31 mm long, with the tube forming 21 mm of this. The trefoil is 19 mm wide and the maximum thickness is 8 mm. | 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 | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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