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Description: | Cast copper alloy Early Medieval stirrup mount, Williams? Class A, type 13 with some type 12 similarities. The mount is lozenged shaped, with two knops to either side. It is 53.62mm long, 31.28mm at its widest point, 3.46mm thick and weighs 25.03g. The apex loop is complete, subcircular and 15mm long. The upper surface would have been smooth, but is now fairly abraded. It is decorated with a crude design of an incised line that follows the sides of the mount, with a central, incised, diagonal cross. There are no traces of inlay. There is one rivet hole to the bottom of the mount, with the remains of the iron rivet evident.The reverse is flat and the mount has a short right-angled flange across the width of the base. There is a sizeable area of iron to the back of the rivet hole, which presumably represents part of the iron fitting that the mount covered. The patina of the object is dark brown, with the incised lines showing dark green. It is probably 11th century in date. | 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: | Caroline McDonald | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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