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Description: | Copper alloy, and organic material, possibly pitchPossible Stirrup Mount fragment. Cast openwork plate with three upper lobes, and two lower lobes defining a further feature (now lost). The larger upper lobe bears a round off-centre aperture of diameter 4.2mm. A crudely incised border surrounds this aperture and is carried further across the surface, though remaining only in better preserved areas. This may derive from a scheme of zoomorphic decoration, though this cannot be reconstructed. Elsewhere, where the original surface is lost, metal displays a brown tinge typical of Anglo-Scandinavian metalwork.The reverse bears a thick patch of what appears as a black pitch, though this may again represent the differential survival of an original metal surface, or the attachment of this object to another. Suggested date: Early Medieval to Medieval, 900-1100.Length/Height: 38.4mm, Width: 39.8mm, Thickness: 5.7mm, Weight: 22.07gms.It could be the upper part of a Class A, Type 16 mount? (Wendy Scott)
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