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Description: | Cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount, lozenge-shaped in plan, with circular terminal and saltire cross dividing four lozenges within. There is evidence of enamelling within these recessed lozenges, but the piece has been cleaned and lacquered, so it is difficult to assess. There is a projecting circular boss at the centre of the cross, but none at any of the junctions. There are two rivet holes at either end of the mount, both with copper alloy rivets still intact. The rivet at the curved fixing hole end is still attached to a fragment of copper alloy plate which would have been fixed between the mount and the iron strap, now missing, on the reverse.Williams (1997) illustrates similar examples on page 72, Fig.46, Nos.302 & 305, which are classified as Class A, Type 12, which are lozenge-shaped in plan with a central diagonal cross and four recesses, and dated to the 11th century.Read (2001) illustrates a similar example on page 10, Fig.6, No.54, which is referred to as Williams Type 12 and dated to the 11th century.
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