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Description: | An incomplete copper-alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams Class B type 3 group 4 (Williams 91-92, fig 57, no 436-438). Only the upper half of this strap mount survives, the rest is missing due to an old break, now worn.
It is open work and trapezoidal in shape measuring 44mm in width and 27mm in surviving length. It has four upper circular apertures and the upper edge has triangular shaped protrusions along it. There is a single central projecting zoomorphic head, which is mouse/bat-like in character. The oval shaped ears and circular eyes are excentuated with decorative grooves. Around the head and the upper apertures there is engraved decoration. There are open oblong panels to either side of the head.
Similar Class B type 3 group 4 strap mounts have been found in Dersingham, Norfolk and Wargrave, Berks they are 11th century in date (Williams 1997, 94). | 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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