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Description: | Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, slightly trapezoidal openwork, convex upper edge with corroded remains of iron rivet in centre (with corrosion filling flanking openwork holes), single central head supported on the forelegs of a flanking pair of beasts who sit on their haunches with their tails curled up behind their backs and ending in scrolls. Each beast has a curling crest and deeply engraved details on head and body, two iron rivets through base (without flange) retain fragment of iron plate on reverse, 31 x 36mm. Cf. 2 similar examples from Norfolk in Williams' (1997) Class B, Type 2, Group 2, which are in turn paralleled in material from Domburg, Zeeland. One of these was found in Hindringham (HER 25157), and the other in Postwick (HER 23971). 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: | 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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