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Description: | A copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Late Early-Medieval to Medieval date.The mount is sub-triangular, with outward bowing sides and a damaged apex loop. The decoration, executed in high relief, depicts a lion standing right, its left paw raised, its head and neck tilted backwards. The tail loops beneath the body, back across it and terminates above, in a loop which touches the ear of the animal. The head is located central to the top of the panel, the splayed jaws immediately below a rounded lobe protruding downwards from the apex loop. There are two circular perforations within the design, one close to each of the bottom corners. A short right-angled flange projects backwards from behind the horizontal bottom side.Dimensions: 45.8mm high, 29.3mm wide, 5.5mm thick. Weight: 21.34g.Of all of the stirrup-strap mounts in David Williams's catalogue (1997), this, the Class A, Type 11A, is the most common, with 63 examples illustrated (ibid. 58-67). Such artefacts date from around the 11th century.
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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