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Description: | An incomplete Late Early-Medieval to early Medieval cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount (AD 1000 -1100). Williams Class A, type 7.The mount is sub-triangular in plan and is decoratively moulded at the front. When complete, the apex would have been zoomorphic. Two sinuous snake-like features that emerged from the head form a frame. At each side of the frame there is a small knop. The curving frame turns inwards towards the base and rises to form a tree-like device with branches ending in opposed scrolls, surmounted by an arrow-like shape. There is no evidence for any inlay between the tree-like device and the frame. At each corner of the base are two zoomorphic knops projecting outwards at an angle of about 45°. Between these knops there are two circular rivet holes, both of which are about 3.45mm in diameter. Immediately below the rivet holes, a right-angled flange projects rearwards. This has a width of about 15.0mm.Height: 27.91mm; width: 26.92mm; thickness: 6.94mm. Weight: 7.73g.This mount has no patina and the surface, partially obscured by green corrosion products, is purplish brown. The break appears to be old.The mount is very similar to several other examples published by David Williams and is particularly similar to one from Blewbury, Oxfordshire (Williams 1997: 45, fig. 31, ref: 116). Similar types have been recorded on The Portable Antiquities Scheme database. For example, see finds: IOW-A649B7; NMGW-6A0D70 and NMS-5BB6B3.
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