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Description: | A worn copper-alloy stirrup terminal of late Anglo-Saxon/Anglo-Scandinavian date. The terminal is in the form of a stylised animal or beast with a hollow, semi-cylindrical attachment end that would have enabled attachment to the now missing stirrup. This is open at the top, has traces of a white substance perhaps used to solder the terminal to the stirrup, and is closed at the base. The sides of the attachment and are incomplete due to old breaks and at the top of the front face there is a moulded transverse band. From the base of the terminal projects the stylised beast, which has a long neck that curves round to face back up the stirrup, creating a circular aperture. Two flattened and rounded crests run from the top of the beast's head towards the foot of the terminal. On both faces of the terminal above the central aperture are moulded oval shaped indentations representing the eyes, and where the snout rejoins the terminal there is a small transverse moulded ridge. The entire object measures 43.72mm in length, 22.27mm in width, 11.30mm in thickness, and weighs 16.96g.This object would have served as a decorative zoomorphic terminal from a late Anglo-Saxon/Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup. The curved and crested animal with hollow back face depicted on the current example is of a type with distribution seemingly confined to the east of England, specifically East Anglia and Lincolnshire, and dates to the 11th century AD (see Williams, 1997: 1-2, fig. 3; SF-1A3B03, SF-AD5323, SF-68A6D6 and SF-6A1C95).
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