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Description: | Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 10C. The mount is basically triangular, with slightly outcurving sides; it is strongly convex. The apex is extended into a pierced terminal which is blocked by iron corrosion. Below this, the body of the mount is decorated with an Urnes-style animal with its head stretching upwards to the apex. The body of the animal interlaces around six circular perforations, four in a diagonal line, one above and one below. Although the mount is very worn, there appears to have been no basal flange, and it may be that the convexity of the mount meant that there was no need for one. Just above the base are two rivet holes blocked with iron corrosion, which obscures part of the interlacing animal. There is a worn projection, originally an animal-head terminal, extending downwards from one of the lower corners; at the opposite corner its counterpart is missing and the break is old and worn. | 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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