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Description: | Unusual form of Late Saxon stirrup-strap mount, the upper part comprising a cinquefoil with perforated central upper foil, and each of the five foils with incised rocker arm lines containing tinning, now upstanding from the surrounding decayed surface. The double-concentric lines echo the form of each foil, with an adittional line forming a chevron at the junction between the foils and bordering the rectangular lower part of the mount before the obliquely-angled perforated flange at the base. The perforation contains a copper alloy rivet. The outer edge of the lower foil on the left hand side is short and flattened and may have been miscast or broken in antiquity. Height 49mm. Width 37mm. 1.5mm thick. Cf. Related forms from Norfolk, from Somerton (NMS-4DF205, NHER 31345), Illustrated in Norfolk Archaeology (2005), fig.10 A, from Cawston (NMS-3F8900), and from Ludham (NMS-42A713, NHER 58978). 11th century.
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