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Description: | Complete cast copper alloy Early Medieval stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, type 12 dating to the 11th century. The stirrup-strap mount is lozenge shaped. It has an integral flat rectangular flange with a rivet hole pierced centrally projecting backwards perpendicular to the main frame along the base. At the top is a circular loop for attachment. The main frame has four lozenge shaped openwork elements divided by a cross in the middle. At the very centre of the cross is a small boss and bosses also decorate the four ends of the cross where the meet the frame as well as the two side corners of the lozenge frame. Two lines of punched triangular decoration follow the outline of the stirrup-strap mount including the loop and the central cross.The stirrup-strap mount is 49.3mm in height including the loop, 31.9mm at its widest point, 2.8mm thick and weighs 14.7g.This is an example of a Williams Class A, type 12 openwork stirrup-strap mount (1997, 71), typically dated to the 11th century. This is a large group with no obvious distribution pattern, although like most stirrup-strap mounts they are concentrated in the south and east (ibid:21, 23, 69). Seven examples catalogued by Williams (ibid: 69, 72) have similar double lines of punched triangles.
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