Record ID: PAS-71F041
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A fragment from a cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of late early-medieval date (c. 11th century AD) which can be categorised as being of Williams's Class B, Type 1, Group 1. It comprises a flat, sub-rectangular plate with a moulded front, broken through apertures. It has been broken at the base of a central rib which would have connected to a central zoomorphic motif. From each end of a transverse bar from which the central rib develops a moulded animal head springs, each with incurved removals along the longitudinal edges creating a brow and nose in-one, and with a central pe…
Created on: Sunday 5th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Cranborne CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-70EBBC
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Wiltshire
Workflow stage: Published
A cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of late early-medieval date (c. 11th century AD), not longer fully complete having suffered some minor losses. It can be categorised as being of Williams's Class B, Type 2, Group 4 (Webley 2014, 354-355; fig. 7b/note 64). The mount is sub-rectangular, and D-shaped in cross-section. It has a squared off top with a central perforation; the rivet has ben lost but there is iron corrosion product adjacent to the hole on the front. The edges of the mount bow out slightly and are each formed of double-headed serpent or dragon. Each of the four head…
Created on: Sunday 5th February 2017
Last updated: Friday 16th December 2022
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Berwick St. John CP', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: PAS-5CF5A1
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Published
A broken and now incomplete cast copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of late early-medieval date (c. 11th century AD) which can be categorised as a Williams Class A, Type 5 mount (1997, 40-42). The object comprises a pentagonal base on the angled upper parts of which are two tendril-like shapes with scrolled terminals. These are broken just after converging at the upper apex of the base, and would have continued in a long apex extension that would have begun with a zoomorphic head and terminated in a loop; the apex extension has been lost below the head as a result of old damage. The …
Created on: Saturday 4th February 2017
Last updated: Wednesday 7th November 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Gussage All Saints', grid reference and parish protected.