Record ID: CORN-5C549B
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete cover plate of the box mounted at the apex of a Post-medieval copper alloy stirrup in the form of a scallop shell or crown. The edges at the side are missing, having been broken off with the bar which would have formed the rear of the box. The moulded plate is formed of six incised radiating oblique lines, above a transvere border. In the centre of the convex upper edge, there is a rectangular knop, 8 mm wide and protruding 6 mm from the edge. This makes the plate look like a crown with a mounted element on top. If meant to depict a scallop shell, then it may indicate links…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Sunday 22nd April 2018
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Record ID: NMS-5C3F77
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Fragment of a Late Saxon mount, possibly a stirrup-strap mount of Williams' Class B unclassified, rather worn. One outer angle survives of a trapezoidal open-work body with Ringerike-style interlaced knots and tendrils, partly defined by engraved lines. No surviving means of attachment. Extant dimensions 22 x 20.5mm. 2.5mm thick. Cf. a Danish mount in Williams 1997, fig.65, no.12. 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 20th April 2018
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Record ID: NARC-5BFCAC
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Northamptonshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete (fragmentary) copper alloy Stirrup of Medieval to Post-Medieval date (AD 1450-1550). The stirrup is sub-rectangular in plan with slightly incurving sides. The sides are broad (mm at their base) and are decorated with integral fan-like ribbing which extends about half way up the side. At its apex the stirrup narrows slightly. The upper end of the object is sub-ovate and is a scallop style box with three radiating incised lines to represent the undulations of a shell. To the back of the scallop is a rectangular sectioned aperture to allow a stirrup leather to pass through. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 17th April 2018
Last updated: Friday 20th April 2018
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