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Description: | A cast copper alloy Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup strap mount of Williams' Class A type 11A. The mount is triangular in plan with a circular rivet hole at the top, now encrusted with iron corrosion on the reverse. The mount is quite worn but it has a raised outer border, within which is a rampant beast, similar to a lion or dog facing left, with its head thrown back in a howl and its right foreleg raised. It also has a raised tail curling across its back towards the head. Below this beast within the outer border is two rivet holes, the left hand one of these has the rivet still visible. On the reverse of the mount the base has a protruding lip iron encrusted across its width and particularly around the two rivets, otherwise the reverse is plain. These mounts date to the 11th century AD of the Early Medieval period.
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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