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Description: | Copper alloy stirrup-strap mount. A sub-triangular mount with slightly convex sides and flat base, decorated with the raised imaged of a lion walking right and looking upwards, with its left foreleg raised and tail curled up over and then above its body, all within a raised outer border. Details of the lion, such as the mane are unclear. Below the lion, the border is slightly thicker. There is no clear evidence of attachment holes thorugh the lower part of the front with none through the boder and probably non theough the area immediately above, although this is partly obscured by corrosion. At the top point the mount is expanded into a tri-lobed terminal with a circular hole through the large central lobe. The reverse of the mount is undecorated and has a central right-angled flange protruding from the lower edge. This flange is broken at both ends through circular attachment holes so it is not clear if it was originally the full width of the mount, or if it was rectangular or trapezoid.The mount is a Williams Class A, Type 11A (ibid. pp.58-69), one of the most common forms for these mounts. Williams suggests that these strap mounts were in use from the first quarter of the 11th century at the earliest, until around the end of the same century (ibid. p.8). Lewis (2007, p.184) has since offered a more precise date range of c.1070-c.1140.Length: 48.8mm, Width: 25.4, Thickness at centre: 5.2mm, thickness including flange: 7.2mm, Weight: 14.15g
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/ | Go to resource |
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