File:11th century stirrup mount (FindID 804111).jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(5,424 × 2,862 pixels, file size: 5.35 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents

Summary

[edit]
11th century stirrup mount
Photographer
Kent County Council, Walter (Jo) Ahmet, 2016-09-14 16:58:28
Title
11th century stirrup mount
Description
English: A complete copper-alloy stirrup-strap mount, dating from the 11th century of Williams Class B, type 4.

The mount is roughly rectangular in plan with scalloped edges a trilobate apex, a main body with animal masked and a pierced flange at a 45 degree angle. The Animal mask dominates the main body of the mount and is ovoid wider at the crown and pointed at the bottom, with clearly defined eyes, snub noses and pointed triangular ears. There are two rivet holes at the top abutting the ears, there is a 2nd group of rivet hiles on the flange. All the rivet holes have corroded iron rivets in place. The back of the mount is undeccorated and slightly concave. The entire mount is pitted, slightly corroded and abraded around the edges. The mount is mottled various shades of brown and green.

Measurements: 40.6mm high, 27.76mm wide, 14.7mm thick and 40.65g in weight.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Kent
Date between 1000 and 1100
date QS:P571,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P1319,+1000-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1100-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Accession number
FindID: 804111
Old ref: KENT-971D42
Filename: KENT971D42.jpg
Credit line
The Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) is a voluntary programme run by the United Kingdom government to record the increasing numbers of small finds of archaeological interest found by members of the public. The scheme started in 1997 and now covers most of England and Wales. Finds are published at https://finds.org.uk
Source https://finds.org.uk/database/ajax/download/id/582846
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/582846/recordtype/artefacts
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/804111
Permission
(Reusing this file)		 Attribution License
Object location51° 18′ 08.28″ N, 1° 11′ 05.89″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

Licensing

[edit]
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.
Attribution: Kent County Council
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current02:35, 31 January 2019Thumbnail for version as of 02:35, 31 January 20195,424 × 2,862 (5.35 MB)Fæ (talk | contribs)Portable Antiquities Scheme, KENT, FindID: 804111, early medieval, page 3228, batch count 2881

You cannot overwrite this file.

The following page uses this file:

Metadata

This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:11th_century_stirrup_mount_(FindID_804111).jpg&oldid=742878563"