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Description: | Early Medieval 11th century Viking period cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount. Sub-triangular in plan with a pair of debased animal head projections at the bottom corners. The apex is broken off across a rivet hole; there are two further rivet holes in the lower edge. On the reverse is a flange projecting at 90 degrees (length 5mm, width 15mm). The face of the mount appears to have been undecorated except for a simple incised line border. Red-brown metal. Length 35.0mm, width 33.6mm, thickness including flange 8.2mm, thikcness not including flange 2.5mm, weight 12.27g.This appears to be an unclassified mount on Williams Class A. See Williams p.80-83, no.s 372, 373 and 379 for similar triangular mounts with projecting heads from the lower edge, which Wililams suggests may be developments of Class A Type 8.
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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