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Description: | Early Medieval type Class A Type 9 (Williams 1997) stirrup strap mount of copper alloy. One corner of the flange is broken, but otherwise the mount is complete and in good condition with much of the black patina remaining. It weighs 22.03g and measures 39x31mm.
The mount is sub-triangular with a single apex loop. The flange is right-angled and there are two lower fixing holes. One is still filled with an iron rivet, remarkably well preserved. The mount depicts a human mask. It has a projecting chin, a straight mouth and pointed oval eyes. Around the cheeks and arching across the eyes are interlacing ribbons which end in scrolls.
It is almost identical to mount 161, also from Cricklade, recorded in Williams (1993) with reference to the Searcher magazine (1993). The close similarity suggests that to two may be a pair, or that may infact be the same object as even the break is the same. This possibility is currently being investigated.
Date: 1100-1300 | 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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