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Description: | A complete Early-Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian)-Medieval copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount (1000-1100). Williams Class A, Type 11A.The mount is sub-triangular in plan, having convex sides and a horizontal base. It is moulded at the front and flat at the rear. At the top of the mount is an integral tri-lobed apex attachment loop. The circular aperture is 3.2mm in diameter. Near the horizontal base of the mount, close to each corner, there is a corroded iron rivet. Both rivets are largely obscured by iron corrosion. On the rear face, along the lower edge, is a flange which projects at a right angle to the plane of the mount. Around each rivet at the rear there is a fragment of a corroded iron strap.The front of the mount has moulded decoration in the form of a frame extending from the apex along each side and along the lower part. Within the frame is a lion facing right and looking upwards. The lion's jaws are open wide and grasping an object which extends immediately below the tri-lobed loop.The object is worn with a mid-green patina in places.Height: 50.9mm; width: 29.8mm; thickness: 8.7mm. Weight: 20.34g.This stirrup-strap mount can be classified as a Williams Class A, Type 11A (Williams 1997: 58-67). It is the commonest type in the Williams series.Williams, D, 1997. Late Saxon Stirrup - Strap - Mounts: A Classification and Catalogue. Council for British Archaeology.
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