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Description: | This is an ornamental cast copper alloy terminal or finial from a composite iron stirrup. It is 43mm long, and consisted of a tubular sleeve with lead solder within to fasten the iron rods of the stirrup base and side. It would have been one of a pair from which the base rod of the stirrup was supported. The surface, which has a mid-green patina, carries grooved ornament: the outline is irregular, taking the shape of an animal's head and neck with a crest recurved back onto the mount and leaving a large circular hole within the decorative scheme. Part of the tubular sleeve is broken away in this specimen. Similar finials are described by David Williams in Finds Research Group datasheet 24. The varieties with the recurved animal head are found distinctively in East Anglia and Lincolnshire. This example differs somewhat from his illustrated item but is of the same general type. | 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: | 900
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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