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Description: | An incomplete cast copper-alloy Early-Medieval/Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup mount of Williams' Class A Type 12. It is missing its apex and suspension loop due to old breaks and has very worn surfaces. The mount is diamond shaped in form with openwork decoration comprising four lozenge or diamond shaped apertures, one now incomplete due to old breaks. A total of four projecting semi-circular bosses survive intact, one at the centre of the mount, one at each side and one at the base, each of the bosses connected on the front face by traces of a moulded single groove. At the base of the mount is an integrally cast rectangular flange set at an angle of 90 degrees that has a single central rivet hole. The entire object measures 35.51mm in length, 32.49mm in width, 6.89mm in thickness, and weighs 13.44g.This is an Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup mount of Early-Medieval date. The diamond shaped plate with openwork decoration indicates it belongs in Williams' Class A Type 12 mounts, with a total of 32 similar parallels noted by him (Williams, 1997: pp. 71-74). This indicates a date range in the 11th century AD for the current object.
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