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Description: | Late Saxon cast, copper alloy stirrup terminal. Of zoomorphic design, this terminal would have completely enclosed the joint of the base and one arm on the lower part of a stirrup. It is in the form of a crested animal head which is curled around so that it faces up the stirrup arm and forms a circular aperture. The animal head has a pointed snout and lentoid knops for eyes. The crest is decorated with grooves. The main body of the mount is hollow,D-sectioned and is filled with corrosion product from the missing iron sturrup. It has two rectangular apertures, one at the top where the arm emerged and another at the base where the lower bar of the stirrup emerged (part of the iron stirrup remains here). At the top of the mount are two raised transverse collars flanking vertical grooves and ridges. DATE: Late Early Medieval - Second half of the 11th century (1050 - 1100) Dimensions: 45.10 mm x 28.10 mm x 10.99 mm Weight: 27.57 g g A similar, more decorative example can be seen in Williams, D, 1997, "Stirrup Terminals", Datasheet 24, Finds Research Group 700 - 1700, p. 2, figure 3.
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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