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Description: | Late Saxon cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount. A sub-rectangular mount with scalloped edges, accentuated by an engraved line all the way around, 1mm in from the edge. There are three attachment holes all with corroded iron adhering, one at the apex, and two at the base on the angled flange. The mount is cast in copper alloy, and depicts a fully modelled mask, with protruding lentoid eyes, each with a drilled blind hole in the centre. Engraving marks are visible in the lines around the eyes and on the forehead, indicating brow lines, and horn-like ears on top of the head. Below the eyes there is a substantial protruding triangular nose (7mm thick) and pointed chin. Height 43mm, width 23mm. On the reverse two iron rivets and part of an iron strap survive. This mount belongs to a group of twelve mounts of distinctive form, (Williams Class B, type 4, no. 455) all but three of which come from East Anglia, the closest in resemblance found at Sparham, Norfolk. 11th century. Reference: Williams, D. 1997, Late Saxon Stirrup-strap mounts: A Classification and catalogue. CBA Research Report 111. | 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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