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Description: | A complete cast copper alloy stirrup mount dating to the late early-medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) period. The mount can be classed as Williams' Class A type 8 (Williams 1997, 47-51) and is moulded at the front and mainly flat at the rear. At the centre, close to the apex, there is a single circular fixing hole. Near the base there are two similar fixing holes, one either side of the longitudinal centre-line just above the position of the rear flange, which is complete. The central hole is filled with the remains of a (probable) iron rivet.Williams (page 47) gives a description of the design. 'At the apex of the mount is a large zoomorphic head with two smaller projecting heads on either side of the base. The flange does not extend along the entire length of the base, just between the two heads. From the upper head with its prominent eyes projects a series of looping and bifurcating tendrils which end in lobes. From the lower heads part of the body and a single limb are depicted; a prominent wing extends upwards and inwards to terminate in a lobe. From their positions, emerging from the bodies of these beasts, these shapes do appear to have been intended as wings'.A good example, complete and with crisp definition, has been recorded from Cheriton, Hampshire (ref. 130).Other similar Class A, Type 8 mounts recorded on the Portable Antiquities Scheme database include BERK-570494 from Letcombe Regis Parish, Oxfordshire; GLO-C14237 from Frocester, Gloucestershire; WMID-EA1E51 from Brewood, Staffordshire and WILT-322238 from Bishopstone Parish, Wiltshire.
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