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Description: | An incomplete cast copper alloy Early-Medieval stirrup terminal of the Anglo-Scandinavian period dating to the 11th Century. The terminal depicts a beast's head with lozengeform eyes and a long snout. Above the snout are two parallel raised bands. The zoomorphic terminal is roughly D-shaped in section with a hollow slot which is filled with the remains of the iron the stirrup arms. 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.This is an Early-Medieval stirrup terminal and of Anglo-Scandinavian manufacture with influences from the Ringerike and Urnes styles (Williams, 1997). It dates to the 11th century AD, and perhaps the second half of the century, with similar examples noted by Williams (1997: fig. 4a). Similar examples can be seen on the database here: WAW-43A0F2, SF-D89172 and NARC-26DB74.The terminal is 45.3mm long, 12.1mm wide, 11.7mm thick and weighs 22.9 grams.
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