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Description: | A complete and worn copper-alloy zoomorphic stirrup terminal of Early-Medieval/Anglo-Scandinavian date.It is sub-oval, triangular in profile and U-shaped in section with a hollow back face and moulded front face. At the top of the terminal is a flattened and undecorated collar. Beneath the collar the front face has moulded zoomorphic decoration in relief comprising a projecting head of a beast (mouse/bat?). It has a bulging oval shaped brow or snout beneath which the snout extends to oval depressions eyes/nostrils at either side of the base of the mount. The base of the terminal is oval, D-shaped in section and undecorated. On the hollow back face are traces of a pale grey/white substance, probably solder which would originally have enabled attachment to the bottom corner of the now missing stirrup.This stirrup measures 36.02mm in length, 8.88mm in width, 12.51mm in thickness, 9.46g in weight.This is an Early-Medieval stirrup terminal and of Anglo-Scandinavian manufacture with influences from the Ringerike and Urnes styles (Williams, 1997). It dates to the 11th century AD, and perhaps the second half of the century, with similar examples noted by Williams (1997: fig. 2).
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