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STIRRUP
Unique ID: LANCUM-FBBF30
Object type certainty: Certain
Workflow
status: Awaiting validation 
Late Early Medieval to early Medieval copper alloy stirrup strap mount (Williams class A, Type 1) dating to the period between 1000 and 1100 AD.
The mount is house-shaped in plan terminating at the apex in a pointed pendant lobe around the upper rivet hole, 3 mm in diameter, and at the base of the mount below there are two more rivet holes. The incised decoration is in the form of two beasts and with two heads upwardly curling and overlapping. From the heads issues a connecting sequence of loops, intending to form the animals' bodies, which are joined together in different positions with two stylised legs and central body.
This stirrup-strap mount can be classified as Williams Class A (Williams, D. 1997. CBA Reserach Report 111. Late Saxon Stirrup Strap Mounts.).
Length 53mm, width 31mm, thickness 3mm, weight 16.45g.
See also CORN-62CCB7, KENT5303, & WILT-DBEE61 for a fragment of something similar.
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
Subperiod to: Early
Period to: MEDIEVAL
Date from: Circa AD 1000
Date to: Circa AD 1100
Dimensions and weight
Quantity: 1
Length: 55 mm
Width: 31 mm
Thickness: 3 mm
Weight: 16.45 g
Discovery dates
Date(s) of discovery: Thursday 7th November 2013
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Materials and construction
Spatial metadata
Region: East Midlands (European Region)County or Unitary authority: Lincolnshire (County)
District: North Kesteven (District)
To be known as: Sleaford
Spatial coordinates
Grid reference source: Centred on parish
Unmasked grid reference accurate to a 1 metre square.
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