STIRRUP 1016424

Description: A complete cast copper-alloy zoomorphic stirrup strap mount of Williams Class A Type 6. The mount is 47mm in length and 28mm wide, with a convex moulded plate, with a lower flange with two rivet holes and a long terminal projecting from the top of the plate which ends with a worn and broken loop carrying a third rivet hole. The front of the plate is decorated with a sinuous snake-like beast running down both the left and right side of the frame. The tails are coiled at the top and form the shoulders of the mount. The beasts heads each have gaping mouths which meet at the lower edge, above the rivet holes and which grasp a multi-branched symmetrical tree-like shape which grows from the base of the frame up the centre of the mount. The tree has four pairs of branches. The reverse of the mount is flat. Circa 11th century AD. Williams (1997, nos 102 - 113) classifies this strap mount is of Class A, type 6. A number of examples have been recorded by the PAS e.g. HAMP-EB4BD1, ESS-B0FE2E, ESS-DC0C43, WAW-6FB0FC and YORYM-868505.

Date: 1000 - 1100

Object type: STIRRUP

Last import: September 22, 2022