Record ID: NMS-C61971
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup strap mount with zoomorphic design of later Early Medieval (Late Saxon), 11th century date, of sub-trapezoidal shape, the upper and (the usually angled) lower edges now missing including a break through one openwork perforation at the lower edge, the upper edge is also truncated through an perforation. The main decoration is roughly incised (either in the model/mould or finished casting) to form a forward-facing beast mask, two eyes, rabbit-like ears and a triangular snout are quite clear, though the piece has lost much of its original surface as…
Created on: Thursday 21st March 2024
Last updated: Thursday 4th April 2024
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Record ID: NMS-0C4420
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon stirrup-strap mount of Williams 1997 Class B, Type 4 in quite fresh condition but without any trace of iron fixings on the reverse. Weight 38.86g. Length 48.2mm. Width 30.2mm. Thickness 18mm. 11th century. Examples of this type were dubbed by Williams 'East Anglian type face mounts'. This was an appropriate description in 1997 when 7 of the 12 listed had Norfolk provenances, 2 Suffolk and 3 Oxfordshire. Thanks to the PAS the type's distribution has widened considerably since then and it is far less strongly skewed towards …
Created on: Wednesday 7th June 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 22nd August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D7C58B
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete late early-medieval copper-alloy stirrup terminal with a flat trefoil finial. The socket is semi-cylindrical in cross section, open at the rear and the top. The front and sides are decorated at the top with a pair of transverse ridges approximately nine millimetres apart. The space in-between is both transversally and longitudinally convex (so somewhat hemispherical). The trefoil plate projects downward, slightly forward and laterally from the bottom-front of the socket. The lateral foils are crescent-like, curving upward, while the central foil is sub-circular. Within the soc…
Created on: Wednesday 5th April 2023
Last updated: Tuesday 27th June 2023
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Record ID: NMS-64F69B
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and worn Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup terminal of simple zoomorphic type (Williams 1997 FRG Datasheet 24, fig. 4) with decayed remains of an iron stirrup within. Parts of the closed end and all of the open end are missing but the swell of the animal's brow and longitudinal ribs on the elongated snout are visible. Weight 5.7g. Extant length 25.2mm. Width 9.2mm. Thickness 7.5mm. 11th century.
Created on: Friday 10th February 2023
Last updated: Wednesday 2nd August 2023
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Record ID: NMS-D5BD87
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy 11th-century stirrup-strap mount of Williams's Class A, Type 14, consisting of a cross-shaped top and a flaring triangular plate. The upper arm of the cross is short and wide, and the two side arms are long and thin, the right-hand arm (as viewed from the front) being distinctly longer and thinner. There is no surviving decoration on any of the arms, but they are very worn, so decoration may have been lost and the arms may have been damaged or modified. Where they cross is a circular rivet hole 4.1mm in diameter.  The sides of the mount then flare out to for…
Created on: Tuesday 10th January 2023
Last updated: Saturday 28th January 2023
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Record ID: NMS-436A1F
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late early-medieval Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup-strap mount of Williams’ (1997) Class A, Type 10A. It is pear- or teardrop-shaped, with a flattened (though still slightly convex) base, a loop at the apex and two small knobs projecting laterally from the widest part. Apart from the loop there are no perforations, either decorative or functional. The mount is convex on the front and concave on the reverse. Viewed from the side, the upper part curves moderately rearward of the lower part. On the reverse, at the base, there is a flange of the type Williams (ibid, 25) describ…
Created on: Tuesday 3rd January 2023
Last updated: Friday 26th May 2023
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Record ID: NMS-3032FC
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams 1997 Class A, Type 1. Zoomorphic decoration on the rather worn front face, "looping bodies of the pairs of snake-like beasts", is carried out in lines of finely executed interrupted rocker-arm engraving giving the appearance of tiny addorsed triangles. Part of the iron fitting remains within the flange. Weight 26.55g. Length or height 46.4mm. Width 33.2mm. 11th century. Finder's no. RW/F8
Created on: Monday 2nd January 2023
Last updated: Thursday 9th February 2023
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Record ID: NMS-71E134
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class B,with engraved decoration. The main part of the mount is large and rectangular with straight sides, 35.9mm wide, with an obliquely angled flange. The flange runs the full width of the mount and has a central hole with iron rivet, which retains a rectangular patch of iron corrosion around it on both front and reverse. The upper part of the mount is rounded and shaped into three concave curves or scallops on either side and one at the apex, making seven in all, and giving a roughly pentagonal shape to the mount. There is a circular…
Created on: Monday 12th December 2022
Last updated: Thursday 20th April 2023
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Record ID: NMS-DD3935
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and worn Late Saxon strirrup-strap mount of Williams 1997, Class A, Type 1 with the apex missing, an old oblique break across the fixing hole. Two iron rivets and the remains of an iron strap lie above an obliquely-angled flange. Iron corrosion on the reverse. The complex and somewhat debased engraved decoration on the face comprises angular pseudo-interlace. Weight 12.21g. Extant height 35mm. Width 31mm. 11th century.
Created on: Monday 5th December 2022
Last updated: Wednesday 17th January 2024
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Record ID: NMS-13C231
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete late early-medieval copper-alloy stirrup terminal with a flat trefoil finial. The socket is semi-cylindrical in cross section, open at the rear and the top. Parts of the edges in both places are now lost to worn breaks. The front is decorated near the bottom with a transverse ridge, below which are two shallow transverse grooves. The trefoil plate projects downward and laterally just below these. The lateral foils are each decorated with a single shallow crescent-shaped groove. The central foil bears a pair of these, which meet each other at their distal tips to create a lea…
Created on: Thursday 20th October 2022
Last updated: Monday 21st November 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9E2EB8
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup terminal, flat-fronted and sub-triangular in the lower part with, at the apex, a transverse rib lies below a bulbous moulding the top of which is cracked and broken. The hollowed reverse is empty of solder. At the base of the hollow and above the base of the object there is an incomplete flange. The only parallel noted (SF-BF2633)  is complete: at the apex there are two bulbous mouldings, the upper one a stylised animal head. Weight 13.4g. Length 32.7mm. Width 19mm. Thickness excluding flange 6mm. 11th century. Finder's number PS2/8
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-9D8A9D
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete and rather worn Late Saxon strirrup-strap mount of Williams 1997, Class A, Type 1 with the apex missing (an old break) though the fixing hole is present. Two iron rivets and the remains of an iron strap lie above a right-angle flange. Very simple and somewhat debased engraved decoration comprises a slightly sagging transverse line linking lines which run up close to the edges to the break, a median line which descends from the break, is interrupted by the fixing hole and stops above the sagging line, and two subdivided triangles, both incorporating a line close to …
Created on: Wednesday 15th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-613CD3
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup terminal of trilobate foot-like form (Williams 1997 Finds Research Group Datasheet 24, fig. 5). The top is marked by a pair of transverse rib. There is insufficient depth within the object for the corner of a stirrup to gain sufficient purchase because the space is largely taken up with an excess of lead solder. Height 27mm. Width 25.8mm. Thickness 17mm. Weight 28.3g. 11th century.  Finder's number POD15/26
Created on: Sunday 12th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-4A8099
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup terminal of trilobate foot-like form (Williams 1997 Finds Research Group Datasheet 24, fig. 5). The upper part is missing, the break lying just above a transverse groove. Some lead solder remains within along with rust. Weight 7.3g. Width 19.7mm. Extant height 16.4mm. 11th century. Finder's number POD15/9
Created on: Saturday 11th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-461A74
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup terminal of trilobate foot-like form (Williams 1997 Finds Research Group Datasheet 24, fig. 5). The upper part is missing, the break lying below where there would almost certainly have been a transverse rib or possibly a groove. Some lead solder remains within. Weight 10.0g. Width 19.2mm. Extant height 16.3mm. 11th century. Finder's number AF6/8
Created on: Saturday 11th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 18th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-307B51
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup strap mount. Williams Class A, Type 10A (closest to fig. 36, no. 184). Sub-triangular or 'pear-shaped' body, broken across the perforated lug at the apex, the debased stylised decoration shows an elaborate interlaced animal with its head at the apex, in high relief. The reverse has a flange at the base, broken across two rivet-holes, much iron corrosion on the concave lower third. Extant height 51mm. Width 33mm. Weighs 33.13g. 11th century.
Created on: Friday 10th June 2022
Last updated: Monday 20th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-78B015
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of William 1997 Class B Unclassified, with the upper part missing and two fixing holes in an angled flange. The old breaks apppear to have truncated two apertures, probably reniform as in some Class C mounts. On the front face extremely crude asymmetrical engraving defies interpretation, and on the reverse there are surface irregularities that have escaped fettling. Weight 21.6g. Extant height 44.5mm. Width 36.7mm. 11th century. Compare Williams 1997 no. 474, from Meols, which has the same shape and similar engraved decoration.
Created on: Wednesday 1st June 2022
Last updated: Monday 12th December 2022
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Record ID: NMS-A790D1
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Lower part of Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams 1997 Class B, Type 2, Group 1 with old breaks. There are vertical engraved grooves on the angled flange flank a group of three fixing holes. A variation in this example is that the hindquarters of flanking animals are not superimposed on the flange. Instead there are groups of oblique grooves on the sides above it. These may represent the feet of beasts. Only one other Class B, Type 2, Group 1 mount has been recorded from Norfolk (ibid. no.413). Weight 12.8g. Extant height and width 25.8 and 35.3mm. 11th century.
Created on: Sunday 22nd May 2022
Last updated: Tuesday 5th July 2022
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Record ID: NMS-D021CD
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Late Saxon copper alloy cruciform stirrup-strap mount of Williams 1997, Class A, Type 14. The two lower fixing holes along with the area of the front face between them are filled with remains of iron rivets, and the reverse above the right-angled flange is covered by the decayed remains of the iron fitting. Both sides and the top of the sub-triangular lower arm of the cross are followed by an engraved groove but within it much of the front face is obscured by rust. The ends of the top and side arms carry engraved grooves but only the top arm is convincingly zoomorphic. A fixing hole a…
Created on: Thursday 12th May 2022
Last updated: Monday 27th June 2022
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Record ID: NMS-6B4BF2
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Cast copper alloy openwork Anglo-Scandinavian stirrup mount of Williams Class A, Type 12. Openwork lozenge shape with a pierced attachment loop at the top and a rear facing straight and flat flange at the base. Four sub-circular holes in the main body create a saltire cross, with moulded raised knops around the frame and in the centre. The pierced attachment loop is blocked with iron corrosion with further iron concretion around a circular rivet hole through the flange Circa AD1000-1150.
Created on: Saturday 7th May 2022
Last updated: Friday 13th May 2022
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