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Description: | A cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of late early-medieval to medieval date (c. late 11th century AD). This tapering pear-shaped mount can be classified as a Williams Class A Type 10A mount, based on its decoration in the English Urnes style.It is solid, of a hollow convex form with a common right angle flange at its base (Type A, Williams 1997, 25), solid and offset at the sides.The base of the mount's front has been perforated twice, with the two iron rivets surviving corroded in situ. Opposite the base is the rounded apex loop which similarly retains an iron rivet corroded in place. Between the two is the Urnes-style ornament in low relief depicting a coiled serpent-like beast whose head with round eyes is towards the apex of the mount, viewed in plan. Its body bifurcates at a spiral hip joint; the body continues in a series of loops and terminates in a scroll to the left of the hip. Possibly two secondary snake-like forms intertwine with the main beast.Other examples can be found illustrated in Williams (1997, 54; fig. 36, especially no. 179). This mount has an even red-brown patina, overlain by light-green corrosion product on the reverse.
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