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Description: | A copper-alloy stirrup terminal mount of zoomorphic design. This mount weighs 5.25g, has a length of 16.3mm, width of 11.7mm and depth (thickness) of 10.3mm. The back of the mount is hollow 'U' shape. The walls of the mount at the edge of the artefact have a thickness of 2.4mm. The front lower edge is cut away from the straight sided side edges and forms a rounded slightly upturned snout. Above the snout the beast has circular bulging eyes that form hemispheres further defined by a surrounding shallow groove. Two diagonal parallel grooved lines occupy the area between the side edges of the mount and eyes, representing the cheeks, on both sides of the mount. These diagonal lines stop just short of the eyes (0.6mm below one eye and 1.9mm below the other) and angle backwards the top being by the eyes and the base of the lines slanting towards the back of the head. The upper edge of the mount stops as a straight transverse line. Just before the upper edge there are two small oval projecting lobes, directly in line with and behind the eyes, which are further defined by a shallow semi-circular groove along the inner edge of the lobes. These lobes represent ears.This stirrup mount is relatively short in length and it is possible that the mount was positioned to be used as a shoulder collar at the proximal apex of the stirrup rather than a terminal mount on the lower corners of the stirrup either side of the foot plate.Williams dates these mounts to probably being centred on the second half of the 11th century AD. See Williams, D. Stirrup Terminals: Finds Research Group 700-1700, Datasheet 24. 1997.
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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