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Description: | Incomplete copper alloy Late Early-Medieval, eleventh century stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, type 10A. Length 50mm, width 31mm and 12mm thick. Weight 31.09g.
The mount is sub-triangular in plan and part of the apex loop is broken and missing. The break is old. The front is convex and the rear is concave. As viewed in plan, the sides are convex and flare outwards towards the corners of the horizontal base. In each of the lower corners is a rivet hole, each of which is about 2.5mm in diameter. The rivets are missing. A small fracture extends from the right hand hole to the right hand edge of the mount. At the base is a right angled flange which extends rearward about 5mm. The mount is in a stable condition and the metal is generally a purple brown colour. Decoration at the front reflects influence from the Urnes style, and depicts a coiled animal. Wilson's description of a similarly decorated mount can conveniently be quoted here for this mount (Wilson 1964, 143):
"...an interlaced animal, seen from above, with its head at the apex, its two ears are comma-shaped and the snout is faceted. One front leg curves away gracefully from a spiral hip just behind the head and thence bends at right-angles to form a curled paw above the right hand ear of the animal. The other front leg extends straight down into the right hand corner. The body turns so that the hindquarters are within a loop formed by the body of the animal, while the tail, with its curled terminal, emerges to balance the front leg on the opposite side of the head". | 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: | Frank Basford | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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