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Description: | Incomplete Late Early-Medieval copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams' Class B Type 3 Group 4 (1997). It is 42mm long (possibly incomplete length) and max.42.5mm wide. It is a trapezoidal in shape, openwork with a central zoomorphic projecting head, bat- or mouse-like in appearance. To the reverse this projection is hollow. The head has a U-shaped forelock, decorated with 4 shallow grooves (unlike Williams no.437 which has grooves on the forelock the same depth as the rest of the decoration). The head is very similar in style to no.437, with pierced ears (countersunk on the decorated side and 3-5mm in diameter). The smaller hole is surrounded by iron staining. The eyes are pointed oval in shape and ring-and-dot in style, both ring and dot being accentuated by a deep groove. The stirrup strap mount is broken at the end of the snub nose, but the smooth metal here compared to that of the metal next to it (not part of the face and also missing below) suggests there was an aperture below the nose, and the metal to the side was broken - ie. the break was across the aperture. To the other side the metal is intact. Unlike Williams no.437, the stirrup strap mount is not openwork to either side of the face. The metal is decorated with a pair of wavy lines in tiny triangular punches. The outside edge has a groove flanking it and either side of the ears it rises to a point with a 3mm diameter piercing in each. The points are clearly stylised, a knop at each end with a knop either side. It is perhaps a debased form of the stylised profile beasts with gaping jaws clasping the ears of the central head described by Williams of no.437, as the wavy punched lines run around the piercings in a more decorative manner than sylised-beast. Of the two bottom corners where the flange extends, one of the corners is missing. The other is apparantly there but is obscured by a large amount of iron corrosion. Perhaps the corrosion is obscuring a break in the flange because at present it is only 4mm wide. It turns backwards at a c.135 degree angle. The only traces of iron on the reverse are around the holes already mentioned. Othersie the patina is complete and in relatively good condition. 11th century. | 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: | 1001
1100 | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | Katie Hinds | Identifier: | http://www.finds.org.uk/database/artefac... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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