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STIRRUP
Unique ID: DENO-766AD3
Object type certainty: Certain
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status: Awaiting validation 
Early Medieval stirrup mount; cast copper alloy stirrup mount of Anglo-Scandinavian style, dating from the period 1025-1100. Williams' Class A, Type 4. The mount is roughly oval shaped with a loop on either side at the bottom, giving a broader base. One of the loops is now missing, as is much of the horizontal base plate, and there is a break at the top of the mount. The remaining loop seems to have a debased animal head at the point where it meets the main oval of the mount. The mount itself has moulded decoration in a sinuous pattern radiating from a raised boss around the centre of the mount. The boss is an odd shape, suggestive of a nose and the decoration to either side may represent ears. There is an openwork element to the lower half of the design, which four holes passing through the mount. Much of the original surface of the metal is missing and there are areas of both dark green and reddish-brown copper corrosion. Length 39.8mm, width 25.6mm, thickness 4.4mm, weight 15.34g Ref: Williams, page 40, especially mount 81.
Class:
strap mount
Sub class: Williams Class A, Type 4
Subsequent actions
Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder
Chronology
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Ascribed Culture:
Anglo-Scandinavian style
Date from: Circa AD 1025
Date to: AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 39.8 mm
Width: 25.6 mm
Thickness: 4.4 mm
Weight: 15.34 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Monday 3rd March 2008
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Other reference numbers
Other reference: DERBY E6054
Materials and construction
Primary material: Copper alloy
Manufacture method: Cast
Completeness: Incomplete
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Nottinghamshire (County)
District: Newark and Sherwood (District)
To be known as: Collingham
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 | mount 81 |
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