Record ID: PUBLIC-4FF686
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
A complete copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of late early-medieval (Late Anglo-Saxon) date, or slightly later (c. 11th century). The mount can be classified as a Class A, Type 8 example, comparable with those at the more debased end of the spectrum catalogued by Williams (1997, 49; fig. 33; nos. 146-153). The mount is sub-triangular with two shallow small knops at the base, corresponding to the en-face animal heads that protrude from the base of such mounts. It has three rivet holes, two of which contain the corroded remains of iron rivets: those at the base. The rivet hole at the ape…
Created on: Monday 21st April 2014
Last updated: Monday 25th April 2016
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