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Description: | Cast copper-alloy stirrup strap-mount, Williams 1997, Type 8. Sub-triangular mount with a large zoomorphic head terminal at the apex and with smaller projecting heads on either side of the base. From the upper head with its prominent eyes, projects a series of looping and bifurcating tendrils which end in lobes. The lower heads have rounded snouts with flaring nostrils, long pointed eyes and large pointed ears. On each of these is the front part of the animals body together with a single limb. From each body a prominent wing extends upwards and inwards to terminate in a lobe. There is a leaf-shaped area of niello inlay above the lower holes between the wings, with very narrow wavy lines of silver wire-filled grooves. Two lower fixing holes and a further hole behind the upper terminal. Shallow flange with slight iron traces on it. An example from Cheriton, Hants (Williams 1997, 47 no. 130 fig. 32) is very similar to this example. | 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: | Sally Worrell | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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