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Description: | A copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount from the Early Medieval period (c. 1000-1200). This example is an openwork, zoomorphic mount with angled flange. Williams's classification states that this mount is a Class B mount, Type 2, Group 1. Class B, type 2 mounts form a distinctive group of trapezoidal mounts with 'central heads and flanking, inward-looking beasts'.
This example is incomplete; only part of the loop still survives, and the breaks are well worn. The main body of the mount consists of an openwork design depicting two projecting animal heads. The heads sit below the apex loop; both have large eyes and ears. The heads are framed within the openwork design, which is formed of two flanking gaping-mouthed beasts. Two iron rivets remain in situ in the rivet holes. The reverse is undecorated, but the iron rivets can still be seen in situ. The mount has been worn and heavily cleaned.
This mount has already been recorded by Williams's in the book referenced below, no. 412. | 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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