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Description: | Almost-complete stirrup terminal made from copper alloy. The top is U-shaped in cross-section and has a very short length above a bold rounded moulding. Below this the terminal flares to a maximum of 12.5 mm wide and then continues straight down to the base. This area is geometrically facetted; there is a central kite-shaped facet, with the side angles at the widest point, then an angled facet to either side between the centre and the two side facets. None of the five facets has any decoration. The reverse is open from top to bottom, but the base is then closed to form a horizontal shelf. The resulting angular shape fitted around the corner of the iron stirrup, and the terminal was originally fixed to it with solder, none of which remains. Some of the long edges are now missing. An unusually restrained design for a stirrup terminal; these often carry Scandinavian-style decoration and date to the 11th century. | 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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