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Description: | Incomplete cast copper alloy early medieval stirrup mount. This stirrup mount is Williams Class A, type 6. The mount is subrectangular in plan and flat in section with a backward facing flange set at 90 degrees. It is moulded with an intricate zoomorphic design described by William?s as consisting of two snake-like beasts joined by a single collar or knot, which forms the margin to the design. Each beast has a bifurcated tail, which terminates in lobes. The head of each beast has a pointed oval eye, a gaping mouth and a crest that points downward to the bottom of the frame, and an exaggerated lip lappet. The lappet curls up and over to grasp a central, multi-branched, symmetrical tree-like shape which grows from the base of the frame up the centre of the mount. The ?tree? has two pairs of branches. The upper, circular, fixing hole is placed between the beast?s two heads. Above this fixing hole would have been an apex with a further hole, but this has broken off. As the break edge is worn smooth this damage is presumed to have occurred in antiquity. At the bottom of the mount are two further circular fixing holes. The reverse of the mount is plain. No surface decoration or inlay survives on the mount. The object has a mid brown patina with patches of lighter green. There are patches of iron corrosion to the reverse of the mount on the flange and close to one fixing hole. The mount has a surviving length of 32.28mm, is 28.68mm wide, 5.02mm thick and weighs 17.66g. Stirrup mounts date to the 11th century. Examples of type 6 can be seen in Williams, 1997 figure 29. | 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: | 1025
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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