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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Early Medieval stirrup terminal of the Anglo-Scandinavian period dating to the 11th Century, or possibly slightly later. The zoomorphic terminal is roughly D-shaped in section with a hollow reverse where the stirrup arms would have slotted into the terminal. The terminal depicts a beast's head (possibly in Ringerike art style) having a snout at the bottom (with whiskers?), elongated eyes and rounded projecting ears. The stirrup terminal is worn but in good condition. A number of similar artefacts have been recorded on this database, for example SF-FDAFF3, BERK-A43650, BH-A1CDF4, DENO-0A3D43 and WILT-ACB053. 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. They date from around the 11th century.
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