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Description: | Part of a cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount of Early-Medieval (Anglo-Saxon) date (about 1000-1100 AD). David Williams has classified it as Class A type 10D, of which there are only two other examples in his corpus, neither of which was openwork.The mount has a rectangular area at the base with the surviving side being convex, with a projecting rounded knop near the top. The top and other side are missing owing to ancient breaks. It has a rearward projecting flange at the base with a large circular rivet hole at each end of the bottom rectangular area. The body of the mount is openwork with two complete circular holes at the left side, and a row of four further holes along which the mount has broken, running diagonally from bottom right to top left. There are also traces of mounding or incising which contain either a darker patina or traces of niello. Curved lines running above and between the rivet holes are the most obvious.David Williams describes it as tapering sub-rectangular form with projecting lobes, paralleled by other type 10 mounts which are mostly pear-shaped. The decoration is probably an Urnes-style coiled beast with its head looking upwards at the apex of the mount.The surface colour of the metal is generally reddish purple brown and a few flecks of patina surviving are mid-green.
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