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Description: | Cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount length 45mm, width 29mm, thickness 12mm weight.26.84g. The mount is sub-triangular in form with a loop at the apex, this loop encrusted in iron corrosion. The face is decorated with a moulded 'lion' facing to the right within a raised border. The creature looks upwards, with its foreleg raised, and tail curled between its hind legs and over its back. The head is rearing upwards with the mouth open. A rearward facing projection on the base of the piece has two rivet holes, both are encrusted wit iron corrosion. The artefact is corroded leaving a heavily pitted surface, the surface colour is a mid brown. This is a Williams' Class A Type 11A stirrup strap mount of the 11th century (1997, 58ff.). Class A Type 11A stirrup-strap mounts are some of the most common found. Of those documented in Williams 1997 just over half face left, with the others facing right.
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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