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Description: | 11th century copper alloy stirrup mount, of Williams?s class 11A. It is sub-triangular in plan and is missing its trilobed apex with the fixing hole. It is decorated with a moulded depiction of a rightwards-facing lion. Decoration from the missing apex would have consisted of a pendent lobe that would have crossed into the main body of the mount and appear to hang in the lion?s open mouth. Instead, with the apex missing, this pendant lobe has been obliterated by a pierced circular hole that now sits in, and slightly obscures, the lion?s open mouth. This is probably a repair hole to allow the mount to be refitted after the original fixing hole was lost with the trilobed apex. The moulding of the lion is worn, but it is possible to see a well-proportioned animal, with its left right paw raised and its tail curling around its hind right leg and over its back. It is possible to see the lion?s individual claws, but none of its facial features such as eyes and nose. It is possible to make out the ear and four downward segments of the lion?s mane where the neck meets body.
There are no fixing holes to the bottom front of the mount. Instead there are two holes, with surviving iron rivets, in the right angled flange. The iron has clearly spread from these rivets (and also perhaps from the iron stirrup itself) around the fixing holes on the back of the mount and slightly to the front. The rear of the mount is flat and plain and slightly concave. The patina to the rear is mid green. The patina to the front is mid to light green. There is a nick in the mount half way up the left hand side. The stirrup mount is 44.06mm long, 27.36mm at the widest point and weighs 19.10g. See Williams, 1997, page 58, for parallels. | 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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