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Description: | An incomplete and worn cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval/Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup mount of Williams Class A. It is missing the apex of the mount due to old breaks and has extremely worn surfaces. The mount is triangular in form, D-shaped in section with flat back face and slightly convex front face. At the top it terminates in old breaks at what appears to be an incomplete central circular rivet hole. A pair of circular apertures are present at the bottom corners of the mount, each corner having an oval shaped projecting knop that may originally have been a debased zoomorphic or animal head terminal. Traces of a moulded border are visible on the edges of the front face, but the precise form of any decorative elements are obscured by post-depositional wear and corrosion. On the back face of the mount is a small, integrally cast flat rectangular flange. The entire object measures 35.89mm in length, 39.31mm in width, 4.20mm in thickness (at mount, 9.62mm including flange) and 13.22g in weight.This is an incomplete cast copper-alloy Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup mount. It finds a close parallel published by Williams in his Class A unclassified mounts that appear to be in imitation of Class A Type 8 stirrup mounts (Williams, 1997: no. 373, c.f. no. 379). This suggests a date range in the 11th century AD for the current example.
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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