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Description: | Complete copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Early-Medieval, eleventh century date. Found in two pieces and subsequently joined together by the finder. Williams Class A, type 8. Length 44mm, width 25mm and 4mm thick. Weight The mount, which has a moulded zoomorphic design at the front, is sub-triangular in plan. It has a rearward flange at the base which projects at an angle of about 110 degrees from vertical. Just above the flange are two fixing holes, the centres of which are about 5mm distant apart. Viewing the mount from the front, the right-hand hole is larger than the left-hand hole. Both of the holes are counter-sunk at the front. A third fixing hole, about 3.5mm in diameter, is situated near the centre of the mount. Either side of this hole is a horizontal fracture in the form of a fine crack. The rear side of the mount is flat and plain and there are traces of iron around each of the lower fixing holes. The features of the decoration are indistinct, possibly through wear. Alternatively, the surface features within of the mould may not have been distinct. | 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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