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Description: | A Late Early-Medieval (1000-1100) cast copper alloy openwork Stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, type 11B. It measures 54.47x30.96x5.98mm (9.86mm including the flange) and weighs 41.1g.The mount is roughly triangular in shape, with one short straight edge (horizontal) and the two long converging edges above starting parallel to each other and then curving in towards the top. Here a trilobed apex extends, the central lobe of which is pierced (3.49mm diameter) while the other two depict a pair of joined spirals.The mount depicts a lion, standing on three legs with one foreleg raised and the head bent up and back, facing upwards; this posture is typical in this class. The upper lip is curling backwards and the tail curls between the legs and over the back. The lion is enclosed by a plain border which joins to the body at the rear leg, tail, head and two fore legs. Areas between are open, as is the area between tail and back, and between the legs and the base of the mount. The decoration is moulded and in high relief.The base of the mount, c.7mm tall, has an in situ corroded iron rivet at either end. To the reverse the flange projects 9.86mm at a slight downward angle.Although Type 11 is the most prolific of the 11th century Stirrup-strap mounts, sub-type B is far less numerous. Of eighty-six examples of Type 11 in Williams Late Saxon Stirrup Strap-mounts (1997), only four are of the openwork sub-type B (pp.58, 66-7).
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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