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Description: | A Late Saxon copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount.The artefact is incomplete, only the upper half surviving. The remaining portion suggests that it would probably have originally been sub-rectangular in plan, although there is a slight narrowing towards the point of the break. At the centre of the upper surface is a zoomorphic head, executed in high-relief. A raised moulding with concave vertical sides represents the brow and nose of the animal. Either side of nose is a pointed-oval eye. The ears are large, rounded and each has a circular aperture extending through it. Between the ears is a moulded tuft of hair or fur. The area surrounding the head has several other openwork elements, including two circular holes above, and two much larger, irregular holes to the sides. In addition, there is a circular hole at the top left corner, plus the remains of a second such hole at the damaged top right corner. The sides of the mount are irregular, the undulations corresponding with a pattern of incised grooves in the upper surface. Unlike most stirrup-strap mounts, the object is not symmetrical, the head being set slightly to the left of centre, the surviving lobe at the top right corner being much larger than the opposing one. The reverse of the mount is undecorated and the surfaces are flat, the only exception to this being the concave portion behind the zoomorphic head. The piece measures 26.9mm long, 46.1mm wide and 6.2mm thick. It weighs 13.66g.This strap mount is classified as Williams Class B, Type 3, Group 4 and is similar to Williams (1997, 92; ref. 436), with the forelocks and engraving in its corners (R Webley 01/06/13). It probably dates from the 11th century.
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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