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Description: | Cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount, house-shaped in plan, with six semi-circular side knops, terminating at the apex in a pointed pendant lobe around the upper rivet hole, 3 mm in diameter, and at the base of the mount below the other two rivet holes, also 3 mm in diameter, is a right-angled flange, inset from the width of the mount, at 15 mm wide and 9 mm deep. The incised decoration is in the form of two addorsed beasts beneath a pendant lobe, and the outline of the two heads, with their upward-turned noses, projecting ears and curling crest, creates the distinctive knobbed profile. The curled crests are either side of the central lobe, leaving triangular spaces which have been chiselled out. There are lentoid eyes following the shaped of the curved head between the ears and nostrils, and opposing scrolled ornaments around the mouths of the beasts and between the rivet holes and the nostrils, mirroring them. From the heads issues a connecting sequence of loops, intending to form the animals' bodies, which are joined together in different positions by several knots. A similar design appears on an Urnes drum brooch from Gotland, Sweden that is in the British Museum (Williams, 1997, 26) which dates from the second half of the 11th century. There are patches of black material on the surface of the mount, which might suggest silver wire or niello inlay. Williams' Class A, Type 1, Early Medieval.Williams (1997) illustrates examples of this type with similar decoration on page 27, Fig.19, Nos.6-8, which are dated from the 11th century.
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