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STIRRUP

Unique ID: HAMP2610

Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow status: Published

Cast copper-alloy stirrup strap-mount, Williams 1997, Type 8. Sub-triangular mount with a large zoomorphic head terminal at the apex and with smaller projecting heads on either side of the base. From the upper head with its prominent eyes, projects a series of looping and bifurcating tendrils which end in lobes. The lower heads have rounded snouts with flaring nostrils, long pointed eyes and large pointed ears. On each of these is the front part of the animals body together with a single limb. From each body a prominent wing extends upwards and inwards to terminate in a lobe. There is a leaf-shaped area of niello inlay above the lower holes between the wings, with very narrow wavy lines of silver wire-filled grooves. Two lower fixing holes and a further hole behind the upper terminal. Shallow flange with slight iron traces on it. An example from Cheriton, Hants (Williams 1997, 47 no. 130 fig. 32) is very similar to this example.

Class: strap mount
Sub class: Williams Class A, Type 8

Subsequent actions

Subsequent action after recording: Returned to finder

Chronology

Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod from: Late
Period from: EARLY MEDIEVAL
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: AD 1000
Date to: AD 1100

Dimensions and weight

Quantity: 1
Length: 47 mm
Width: 26.5 mm
Weight: 18.44 g

Discovery dates

Date(s) of discovery: Tuesday 1st January 2002

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Materials and construction

Primary material: Copper alloy
Secondary material: Iron
Manufacture method: Cast
Decoration style: Zoomorphic

Surface Treatment: Inlaid with niello

Spatial metadata

Region: South East (European Region)
County or Unitary authority: Hampshire (County)
District: Basingstoke and Deane (District)
Parish or ward: Popham (Civil Parish)

Spatial coordinates

4 Figure: SU5543
Four figure Latitude: 51.183592
Four figure longitude: -1.214474
1:25K map: SU5543
1:10K map: SU54SE
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1000 metre square.

Discovery metadata

Method of discovery: Metal detector
General landuse: Cultivated land
Specific landuse: Operations to a depth less than 0.25 m

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

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Recording Institution: HAMP
Created: 21 years ago
Updated: 9 years ago

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