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STIRRUP
Unique ID: SF-CB3A64
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
A fragment of a late Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy stirrup strap mount, only the lower terminal with right angled flange now survives. This strap mount is most likely to be of Williams Class A, as it has a right angled flange and appears to have been of sub-triangular form. It is also most likely to be Class A type 12, openwork version (Williams, 1997, 69-73, fig 46). It is most likely to be type 12 as the base has two parallel circular bosses either side of an incomplete probably originally lozenge-shaped openwork hole, such as the openwork holes that lozenge shaped type 12 mounts have. There is an iron rivet through the centre of the right angled flange and a mass of corroded iron on the back face of the fragment, presumably the remains of an iron fixing strap. This fragment measures 12.19mm in surviving length and 20.14mm in width.
Class:
strap mount
Sub class: Williams Class A, Type 12 (openwork)
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: 12.19 mm
Width: 20.14 mm
Weight: 4.83 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Saturday 1st September 2007
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: Eastern (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Suffolk (County)
District: Mid Suffolk (District)
To be known as: Bacton
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: From a paper map
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 10 metre square.
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