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Description: | Late Early Medieval Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup mount, incomplete, 11th century. Large rectangular openwork mount, symmetrical in the vertical plane. The upper corners are broken off across two or more sub-circular apertures; there are two centrally placed long apertures & a pair of circular apertures in each of the lower corners. The design is unclear but includes two lobes in the centre of the upper half, and appears to have been picked-out in niello. Projecting flange along the base with two rivet holes with iron rivets and the remains of the iron stirrup strap bar on the reverse. The original surface has gone, leaving red-brown exposed surface with some patches of light green corrosion on the obverse. Length 42.34mm, width 43.37mm, thickness 2.95mm, width of flange 6mm, weight 28.53g. This is an unusual form which does not appear in Wililams' classification (Williams 1997 'Late Saxon Stirrup-strap Mounts', CBA Res Rept 111). It is likely to be an unclassified Class B mount.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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