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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup fragment of Medieval date (c. AD 1200 ? c. AD 1400). Overall length 51.0mm, overall width 56.0mm and 11.0mm thick. Weight 35.97g.
The fragment, cast in one piece, consists of a front plate, a back plate and the remains of the side arms. The front plate is trapezium-shaped and has a depth of 31.5mm. It has six perforations to create open-work to form an estoile shape. The diameter of the estoile is about 21.0mm. At each upper corner there is the remains of a circular perforation which has a diameter of about 4.0mm. A similar complete perforation at each lower corner is also about 4.0mm in diameter. All four perforations are countersunk at the front. The back plate is also trapezium-shaped and has a depth of about 13.0mm. This plate, with the front plate, forms an elongated loop that enabled the stirrup to be suspended by a strap from the saddle. The two arms of the stirrup flare out from the sides of the back plate but are fragmentary due to old breaks. Both arms are circular in cross-section and have a diameter of about 5.0mm. When complete, the arms would have extended downwards to join the foot-rest.
The piece is in fair condition, although the front plate is fractured and the surfaces have superficial copper alloy corrosion products. A dark green patina has survived in places.
The stirrup can be best paralleled with a fragmentary example illustrated in Read 1995, 90, ref. 546. This example from Shaldon in Devon, although trapezium-shaped, has a differently designed front plate.
Compare also with Portable Antiquities Scheme finds: HAMP-25AC63, SWYOR-7C4091 and SF-85B017. | 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: | 1200
1400 | 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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