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: WAW-E2CA3C
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Worcestershire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Early Medieval (11th century) incomplete stirrup-strap mount: The cast copper alloy mount is a sub triangle with a debased animal head at each corner. The lower corners extend below the edge of the mount. The body of the mount does not appear to be decorated. On the reverse, along the lower edge there is a right-angled flange. Above the flange there are two circular perforations one of which has an iron rivet remaining. The surface is has a mottled mid-brown patina but is still coated in a fine layer of soil. It measures 67.83mm long, 39.39mm wide and 12.21mm thick. It weighs 36…
Created on: Wednesday 11th April 2018
Last updated: Thursday 15th November 2018
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Record ID: NMS-77FE53
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Very unusual Late Saxon copper alloy openwork stirrup-strap mount of Williams 1997, Class A, Type 12, but with a single lozengiform perforation with a boss at both flanking angles, a perforated lug at the apex and a separate dome-headed copper alloy rivet forming a boss at the lower angle and taking the place of the more usual iron rivet. Iron corrosion on the reverse surrounding the rivet and on the projecting rectangular basal flange. Height 36mm. Width 27.5mm. Weighs 19.08g. Cf. an example from Ingham, Norfolk (NMS-DEA015). 11th century.
Created on: Friday 6th April 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th February 2021
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Record ID: NMS-005858
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 13 dating to the period c. AD 950 - 1100. Diamond-shaped with a pierced loop projecting from the top and a projecting lobed boss on either side. In the centre is a diamond-shaped recess. At the bottom is a rearward-projecting flange covered in iron corrosion from two rivets. See: Williams, D, 1997, p. 75, no. 342.
Created on: Wednesday 7th March 2018
Last updated: Thursday 3rd January 2019
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Record ID: BUC-E708C6
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy early medieval stirrup terminal of zoomorphic form dating from c. AD 1050 - 1100. The Two rounded triangular ears projecting out from behind the eyes, behind this the terminal is rounded and hollow for attachment to the stirrup. The oval eyes are bulging with a raised curved incised line above and below. The nose projects out from below the eyes, and is hooked with incised lines running up into the nose. Below the nose on one side is a rectangular slot. There is a small circular supporting edge on the terminal end for supporting the footplate of the stirrup. Th…
Created on: Tuesday 6th March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Record ID: BUC-92974C
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete Anglo-Scandanavian copper alloy stirrup terminal mount dating to 11th century AD. The mount is in the form of an animal's foot (trilobed) with a flat base and three claws projecting from around the outer edge. The projections are circular in cross-section. At the top of the foot there is semi-circular rim which is slightly everted. The shaft of the mount is hollow and at an angle to the base. The object has a dark green patina. It is 17.8mm in height, 21.6mm in width, 25.9mm in thickness, and weighs 16.37g. These mounts would have adorned the lower outside edges of…
Created on: Friday 2nd March 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-424552
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon to medieval copper alloy zoomorphic terminal mount from a stirrup. The mount has a hollow back with traces of lead within. The front exhibits an elongated snout with raised eyes and ears.
Created on: Monday 26th February 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 10th March 2021
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Record ID: KENT-03FFC4
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Kent
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast later Early-Medieval Anglo-Scandinavian (11th Century), copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A type 11a (1997, 58). Description: The mount is sub-triangular in plan with a straight base edge and two long slightly convex edges converging at the now broken apex, The eye of the lion has been drilled creating a new rivet hole after the pinnacle one snapped away. The front of the mount depicts a right-facing lion, standing on three legs with one foreleg raised and the head bent up and back, facing upwards; executed in high relief. The tail curls betwee…
Created on: Friday 23rd February 2018
Last updated: Friday 6th July 2018
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Record ID: BERK-C40249
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount dating to the late early medieval period. The mount is rectangular in plan with four vertical openwork rectangular slots forming the main frame. The top of the frame and the 'slots' have rounded tops while the base has a small flange to the reverse. At the top of the mount are two iron rivets and a further two rivets in the flange which also has a separate fitting of copper alloy sheet. Williams 1997 Class B, no type. This is a very unsual design and no parallels were immediately forthcoming, however simlar openwork style mounts have be…
Created on: Tuesday 20th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Record ID: NLM-5B110D
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: North Lincolnshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Copper alloy and lead object, kindly identified by Alex Bliss as a stirrup side terminal of 11th century date and probable Anglo-Scandinavian attribution. A small concavo-convex cast object of copper alloy, forming half a tube of wall thickness c.1.1mm, with a dense white filling in its concave side. Viewed in profile, the convex side is gently humped at one end, with a pair of angled ridges meeting between the hump and a rounded end. Abraded. The appearance is of a simple zoomorphic scheme, with the ridges representing eyes or brows, which might point to a Viking-Age date. Suggested …
Created on: Thursday 15th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 21st May 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'High Burnham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SF-4727FA
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Suffolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) stirrup strap mount. It is roughly pentagonal in shape with a straight lower end and pointed apex knop, pierced with a single circular hole. The outer face is engraved interlace decoration in high relief. This motif appears to be upside down compared to the standard arrangement on mounts of this form, with the heads of two opposed open-mouthed beasts at the lower end, double stranded bodies curving down either side of the mount, and in the centre one double stranded foreleg raised to meet each other in the centre and one curving dow…
Created on: Wednesday 14th February 2018
Last updated: Thursday 27th August 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sudbourne', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-9B9BAE
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon stirrup strap mount of Williams' (1997) Class A Type 1 dating to the period c. AD 950 - 1100. A pentagonal plate with pierced semi-circular knop at the apex filled with the corroded remains of an iron rivet. The front exhibits an engraved curvelinear symmetrical design, the bottom part of which is partially obscured by iron corrosion product from two further rivets. On the back is a flange projecting at a right angle from the bottom edge and terminating in an old break. See: Williams, D.F, 1997, p. 26 & 33, fig. 20, nos. 58 - 60, all of whcih are from East Ang…
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd November 2021
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Record ID: HAMP-9A0687
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A late early-medieval, Anglo-Scandinavian (1000-1100) simple zoomorphic stirrup terminal of Williams Group 4 (1997), retaining part of the iron stirrup enclosed within it. The main shaft of the stirrup terminal is semi-circular in cross-section, being flat and undecorated to the reverse. The front has moulded decoration, at the open top of the shaft two bands with c.8 vertical mouldings between, their cross-section a pronounced convex at this point. Below, and at the opposite end, is a beast's head, his snout forming the pointed terminal beyond the cross-bar of the stirrup. The brow …
Created on: Tuesday 6th February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Record ID: BH-481033
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A copper-alloy stirrup strap mount dating to the eleventh century AD. The mount is of Williams' Class A Type 1 type being flat and sub-triangular in plan with a perforated loop at the apex and a right-angled flange at the base. The flange possesses a central circular perforation which is filled with iron corrosion products. The upper surface possesses integrally-cast decoration in the form of two opposing entwined beasts. The strap mount measures 45mm in length, a maximum of 31mm in width and 8mm in thickness.
Created on: Friday 2nd February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 10th December 2019
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Record ID: NMS-33C90B
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount with two confronted beasts, short angled flange, four openwork apertures, two fixing holes with slight rust staining at base and three fixing holes at the top, two blocked with iron and one at the apex incomplete. Detail has been added with engraved grooves along the edges and between and around the apertures. Extant height 42.6mm. Width 30.5mm. Weight 18.82g. 11th century.
Created on: Thursday 1st February 2018
Last updated: Tuesday 19th January 2021
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Record ID: IOW-0ECDD4
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Isle of Wight
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A fragment of an Early-Medieval (Anglo-Scandinavian) copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount (c. 1000-c. 1100). Williams Class A, Type 12 (closed). The front of the plate has two recessed lozenge shaped panels and a portion of suspension loop that may have broken due to wear. The rear is flat and plain. This worn mount is drab reddish brown. Length: 25.0mm; width: 19.9mm; thickness: 3.4mm. Weight: 2.82g. Williams (1997, p. 69-72) has categorised such mounts as Class A, Type 12 (closed). Similar examples are illustrated, 289-305. Williams (ibid. p.8) suggests that such mounts are …
Created on: Tuesday 30th January 2018
Last updated: Friday 1st November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Isle of Wight', grid reference and parish protected.

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Record ID: HESH-89989A
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: County of Herefordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of later early medieval, Anglo-Scandinavian date (1000 - 1100 AD) corresponding with Williams' Group A Type 12 - closed. The stirrup strap mount is a lozenge (diamond) shape in plan with a slight convex (domed) front and a concave rear face. In profile the mount is sub-rectangular (D Shaped) and in cross section the mount is arched (C shaped). At the apex of the mount is an abraded circular projection with a circular cast hole through it filled with a copper alloy rivet. On the reverse of the lower edge is a prominent integral cast s…
Created on: Wednesday 24th January 2018
Last updated: Monday 9th March 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Byford', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: NMS-723C4B
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Norfolk
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Incomplete Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup mount, worn cast semi-circular sheath with broken recessed upper end, two almost conjoined broad grooves on sides above animal-head terminal with worn features and hooked snout at the terminal. Hollow reverse contains traces of solder and iron corrosion. Extant length 34mm. Width 9mm. (Williams' Unclassified Zoomorphic Class). 11th century.
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Last updated: Thursday 20th August 2020
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Record ID: WMID-721A28
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Staffordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete copper alloy stirrup strap mount of late early medieval dating (AD 1000 to AD 1100). The stirrup strap mount is sub square in shape, with a flat cross section. The front exhibits openwork decoration with a central animal head, with a further smaller head above and to the side. Projecting fixing loops are present at the top, one still containing an iron rivet. Lower fixing loops are located along the base, again, one still containing an iron rivet. The reverse is undecorated. It measures 40.4 mm in length, 31.3 mm wide and 6.2 mm thick. It weighs 21.2 g. The s…
Created on: Tuesday 23rd January 2018
Last updated: Wednesday 23rd February 2022
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Record ID: SOM-5C322D
Object type: STIRRUP
Broad period: EARLY MEDIEVAL
County: Dorset
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Complete cast copper alloy Early Medieval stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, type 12 dating to the 11th century. The stirrup-strap mount is lozenge shaped. It has an integral flat rectangular flange with a rivet hole pierced centrally projecting backwards perpendicular to the main frame along the base. At the top is a circular loop for attachment. The main frame has four lozenge shaped openwork elements divided by a cross in the middle. At the very centre of the cross is a small boss and bosses also decorate the two side corners of the lozenge frame, the lower corner and are p…
Created on: Monday 22nd January 2018
Last updated: Monday 22nd January 2018
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