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There would probably have been a flange on the reverse, projecting from the lower edge, but this is apparently broken away. No traces of iron rivets around the fixing holes. Dull brown surface on the reverse; the obverse appears to have been cleaned by the finder revealing yellow-brown metal. Length 54.34mm, width across head 9.11mm, width at shoulder 27.64mm, width at base 24.94mm, thickness across zoomorphic head 5.18mm, thickness 3.49mm, weight 20.89g.\r\n\r\nSee Williams p.40-42, fig 28, no.s 90-101 for other examples of Class A Type 5 mounts. None of these have the same curvilinear decoration at the centre of the frame.\r\nWilliams notes the influence of Late Viking Ringerike & Urnes style decoration on many stirrup-strap mounts, and dates them \u201cfrom the first quarter of the 11th century to around 1100 or not long after\u201d (p.8).\r\n","notes":null,"old_findID":"DENO-C2E2B4","id":"246116","objecttype":"stirrup","classification":"strap mount","subclass":null,"reuse":null,"created":"2009-02-06 12:38:23","broadperiod":"EARLY MEDIEVAL","updated":"2011-02-24 13:53:32","treasureID":null,"secwfstage":"4","secuid":"001498C2F3F01085","findofnote":"0","objecttypecert":"1","datefound1":"2008-10-09","datefound2":"2008-12-11","createdBy":"134","curr_loc":null,"inscription":null,"reason":null,"subsequentAction":null}],"record":[{"id":"246116","old_findID":"DENO-C2E2B4","uniqueID":"001498C2F3F01085","objecttype":"stirrup","classification":"strap mount","subclass":null,"length":"54.34","height":null,"width":"27.64","thickness":"5.18","diameter":null,"quantity":"1","other_ref":"Derby E6356","treasureID":null,"broadperiod":"EARLY MEDIEVAL","numdate1":"1000","numdate2":"1100","description":"Late Early medieval cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, Williams Class A, Type 5, 11th century. Almost complete but with missing flange. Pentagonal field set within a pair of tendril-like shapes which terminate in scrolls. At the apex the tendrils converge into a well-moulded upwardly facing zoomorphic head which supports the apex loop (diameter 3.8mm) and supplies a long handle-like projection. The head has large oval ears, shallow depressions at the eyes and a short square snout. The engraved decoration on the frame is very faint but consists of a border, and, in the lower square of the pentagon (apparently leaving a blank triangle above) a curvilinear design \u2013 difficult to discern but apparently a design of roughly symmetrical opposed lobes curving outwards from the centre of the mount. Two circular fixing holes (diameter 4.3mm & 4.5mm) at the lower edge. There would probably have been a flange on the reverse, projecting from the lower edge, but this is apparently broken away. No traces of iron rivets around the fixing holes. Dull brown surface on the reverse; the obverse appears to have been cleaned by the finder revealing yellow-brown metal. Length 54.34mm, width across head 9.11mm, width at shoulder 27.64mm, width at base 24.94mm, thickness across zoomorphic head 5.18mm, thickness 3.49mm, weight 20.89g.\r\n\r\nSee Williams p.40-42, fig 28, no.s 90-101 for other examples of Class A Type 5 mounts. 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