2009-02-06 12:38:23 Rachel Atherton ratherton 2011-02-24 13:53:32 Daniel Pett dpett DENO-C2E2B4 stirrup 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 – 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. See 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. Williams notes the influence of Late Viking Ringerike & Urnes style decoration on many stirrup-strap mounts, and dates them “from the first quarter of the 11th century to around 1100 or not long after” (p.8). 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 z... Copper alloy Cast EARLY MEDIEVAL EARLY MEDIEVAL Late 1000 1100 27.64 54.34 5.18 Incomplete 2009-02-06 12:38:23 NOTTINGHAMSHIRE ASHFIELD POINT( ) From Map SK46SE SK4436 29.06.2003 Metal detector 1 DENO Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike - The Portable Antiquities Scheme 2009 These records can be reproduced in a non commercial enviroment as long as the original recorder is cited. The Portable Antiquities Scheme info@finds.org.uk No fees are applicable.