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Description: | A late Saxon copper-alloy stirrup terminal.The artefact roughly takes the form of a half-cylinder. The high relief-moulded decoration on the curved upper surface creates the effect of a downward-facing zoomorphic head. The ears are located at the back of the head and consist of two elliptical ridges which extend downwards at 90 degrees from the centre. A short distance further down is a lower pair of ridges, angled forward, which probably represent the eyes. The snout is depicted through the use of a semi-circular moulding which projects outwards at 45 degrees from the top of the vertical front face. The underside is open, as is the vertical back end of the head, which is damaged. Contained within the hollow underside are traces of what appears to be a mineralised organic substance. The artefact is heavily corroded. It measures 23.6mm long, 11.3mm wide and 11.5mm high. It weighs 8.41g.A pair of such stirrup terminals would have been attached to the bottom corners of a stirrup, where they would have served to hold together the horizontal and near vertical arms (see Williams 1997: 7, fig. 4). They date from around the 11th century.
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