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Description: | A complete copper-alloy late Anglo-Saxon 11th century stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A type 4 (Williams 1997, 39-40, fig 27).
This mount is sub-triangular in shape and measures 52.5mm in length and 30mm in width, at its widest point, across its base. It has a trilobate apex loop with a circular hole through the central lobe. It has an oval frame with an oval border groove containing the decoration on the front face. This decoration depicts a roughly central projecting possible head and snout of a small mouse/bat like creature with oval shaped ears. Either side of the snout there is a circular hole and two smaller adjacent circular holes below the snout. There are worn grooves around these holes, what they are depicting is unclear. The base of the mount is expanded and the flange is angled. The flange has a corroded iron rivet through one side and a circular hole through its centre.
Other examples of Class A type 4 stirrup strap mounts are similar in form and style to this example they do not however have circular holes through them, except at their bases as fixing holes. Other examples fixed through the flange as is this example are known. Parallels include examples from Hindringham, Tatterset and Walsingham, Norfolk (Williams 1997, 40). | 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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