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Description: | Early Medieval copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Late Saxon date, c. 11th centuryThe stirrup-strap mount is of Williams (1997, p 96-98) Class B, Type 4 and is near-complete with some damage at the apex terminal and around the peripheries (with a length of 41.9mm, a maximum width of 27.7mm and a weight of 18.1g). The apex is of angular trilobite form (1.2mm thick) and has a single circular perforation (4.5mm diameter). The mount depicts a modelled anthropomorphic mask or face (with an overall depth of 15.8mm). The mask has two diagonal mouldings at the top of the brow, flanking a prominent vertical brow ridge. The eye brows are also accentuated running into the prominent, pointed nose. The eyes are raised and circular. The sides of the mount appear to have been undulating and angular. The flange (with a width of 21.0mm and a depth of 6mm) is angled and contains the remnants of two iron attachment rivets. The rear of the mount is hollow. The original surface of the mount has been lost and small remnant traces of dark green patina survive, elsewhere the surface is dark brown; an oil or grease has recently been applied by the finder.Williams (ibid.) catalogues twelve examples of Class B, Type 4 mounts which have a distribution centred around East Anglia, Williams states that the type form a distinctive group which appears to be a late development within the tradition. Four further mounts of this type have been recorded with PAS since Williams' catalogue, three of which are from Suffolk and the other from Hampshire. This example from Herefordshire represents the most westerly recorded of the type.
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