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Description: | A cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount, 11th century in date. Triangular (40.5mm, x 31.74mm)with a flange at the base projecting out from the reverse at a right angle. The obverse bears an image of a lion-like creature facing left, with head turned upward, one raised paw and the tail going through the legs. The mount is 6.36mm thick and in profile is slightly curved. It has a circular hole at the apex, and the moulding above the hole has partly broken off. It has one lower fixing hole through the flange. The rivet is missing but there is rust around the fixing hole. Weight 27.61g. It has a mid green and dark brown patina with light green corrosion product in the low relief areas and on the reverse. These Viking-inspired mounts are thought to have been mounted at the junction between stirrup and strap. See no. 285 of Williams 1997, Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts - A Classification and Catalogue, CBA Research Report 111.
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