Record ID: ESS-D61556
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete copper-alloy stirrup strap mount of Williams' Class A type 7. Dating to c. 11th-12th centuries. The mount is pentagonal in shape with slightly flaring longer edges. Much of the face decoration is illegible but the motif is likely to reflect something similar to that of known type 7 designs, and could be a central tree. It has a length of 52.4mm. The width is 33.6mm. There are three rivet holes (one at the centre top at 3mm diameter and two at the bottom edge at 2.8mm diameter), and two decorative holes at either edge roughly at the centre of the mount, both between 4.0 …
Created on: Thursday 14th November 2019
Last updated: Monday 9th December 2019
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Record ID: ESS-45D0CB
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy zoomorphic stirrup terminal of late early-medieval date. The item is formed from a semi-cylindrical shaft which is hollow at the back. The shaft terminates in three small knops, and the bottom or base of the item is solid and slopes diagonally downward. There is moulded relief on the outside of the shaft which shows a transverse ridge roughly in the middle of the shaft. There are three vertical grooves corresponding with the position of the three knops or 'toes' that run from the knops to the transverse ridge. Above the transverse ridge two grooves continue to e…
Created on: Thursday 8th November 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 9th March 2021
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Record ID: ESS-B0FE2E
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper-alloy Early Medieval stirrup strap mount. Williams' class A type 6 (see Williams 1997, pg 43). This item dates from c. 1000 - 1100 The mount is formed of a sub-oval shaped body with a (now worn) zoomorphic apex terminal. There is an angled flange on the bottom edge which curves down and outward away from the decorated face. Also along the bottom edge there are two semi-circular voids which are the remains of the original rivet holes, the outer edges of which have since worn away. The moulded relief on the front of the strap mount is of the tree and bifurcating se…
Created on: Tuesday 14th November 2017
Last updated: Thursday 21st May 2020
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Record ID: ESS-DC0C43
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Essex
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount dating to c. 1000 - 1100 AD. The item is subtriangular, and has an angled flange rinning the length of the bottom of te strap mount. There is one rivet hole present in the centre of this flange. The apex terminal is composed of a zoomorphic projection, likely of an animal's head, with a single rivet hole in the slightly flattened plate at the top. According to Williams (1997) this strap mount is of Class A, type 6 - cf. Williams, 1997 nos 102 - 113. It is a realtively squat, broad shouldered strap mount, and like others in the type, …
Created on: Wednesday 22nd February 2017
Last updated: Tuesday 21st March 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kelvedon', grid reference and parish protected.