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Description: | A very worn cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval/Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup mount of Williams' Class B Type 1. It comprises a flat, trapezoidal plate with angled flange, moulded front face and slightly concave back face. The front face is extremely worn to the extent that the decorative motifs can barely be identified. It has a central zoomorphic motif in the form of a projecting head with large ears, prominent nose and concave back face. To either side are lozenge-shaped perforations with two smaller oval shaped perforations above and below. To the right and left of the plate are single circular perforations. On the upper edge there is a projecting semi-circular knop, which although slightly concave on the back face does not appear to originally have been pierced or served as either suspension loop or rivet hole. However, two rivet holes are visible on projecting semi-circular lobes at each upper corner of the plate, one of which retains part of a copper-alloy rivet with dome-shaped head, and a further two at the centre of the flange, one of which also contains a similar rivet. This mount measures 39.20mm in length, 38.20mm in width, 9.64mm in thickness, and weighs 27.39g. This is an Early-Medieval/Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup strap mount that would have been attached to the upper portions of the now missing stirrup. Its form and decoration places it in Williams' Class B Type 1 Group 1 mounts that are suggested to be of possible eastern counties origin and dating to the 11th century AD (Williams, 1997: pp. 85-87, nos. 395-398).
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