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STIRRUP
Unique ID: HAMP-167B66
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
A worn cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of late Anglo-Saxon date (c. 11th century AD). The mount is sub-pentagonal in form. It has a trefoil apex loop with side knobs. From this it widens to its maximum width; the two side knobs present on similar mounts are missing. The mount then narrows, before widening slightly to the base; one of the two knobs survive at the waist described. The base is incurved. Above it are two large circular perforations; these rivet holes are unaligned. The third rivet hole can be found at the apex loop. All three rivets are now missing. On the lower face the curved, perpendicular flange is stepped below the rivet holes (w.: 13.5mm). Above the flange, and also elsewhere on the reverse surface, orange corrosion product adheres from the iron fitting. The upper surface is decorated with an engraved pair of roughly symmetrical addorsed beasts beneath a pendent loop. This decoration, as well as the mount's form, is characteristic of a Williams' Class A Type 1 mount (1997, 26ff.). On the engraved beasts the missing knobs would have formed the ears; the lower knobs (of which one survives) form the noses. The beasts' necks are joined by double loops at various heights on such mounts; this example is too worn to establish the loop's precise location. This artefact now has a dark green-brown patina. It is likely to date from the first quarter of the 11th century to the early 12th century (Williams 1997, 8).
Notes:
The recorder is indebted to Mr Alan Cracknell for his illustration of this artefact
Class:
strap mount
Sub class: Williams Class A, Type 1
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1000
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 47.7 mm
Width: 31.6 mm
Thickness: 2.7 mm
Weight: 19.525 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Friday 1st September 2006
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: E2094
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: South East (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Test Valley (District)
To be known as: Kimpton CP
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 100 metre square.
References cited
| Author | Publication Year | Title | Publication Place | Publisher | Pages | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Williams, D. | 1997 | Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts: A Classification and Catalogue | York | CBA Research Report 111 | 8, 26ff. |
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