File:Anglo-Saxon stirrup mount (back) (FindID 240447).jpg

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Anglo-Saxon stirrup mount (back)
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Royal Institution of Cornwall, Anna Tyacke, 2009-03-04 13:14:22
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Anglo-Saxon stirrup mount (back)
Description
English: Cast copper alloy stirrup-strap mount of Williams Class A, with decorative silver wire and niello inlay of Anglo-Scandinavian inspiration. The mount is very worn and the inlay only survives in patches. Below the apex rivet is a pendent lobe, while at the base a union knot probably links a pair of opposed spirals which are utilised by the pair of rivet holes. Centrally is a knot within a wide ribbon-like strip which may be the body of a snake-like beast whose head is otherwise worn away. A corroded iron rivet survives within the apex hole and obscures the decoration. One of the other iron rivets at the base of the mount has also survived and left surface corrosion, while the other is missing. On the back what appears to be wood grain, the significance of which is not clear, survives in iron corrosion products.

Williams (1997) illustrates a similar example from Hertfordshire on page 81, Fig.51, No.369, which is classified as a Class A mount.
Depicted place (County of findspot) Cornwall
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
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FindID: 240447
Old ref: CORN-C57246
Filename: ASstirrupmountback.jpg
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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/203631
Catalog: https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/203631/recordtype/artefacts archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Artefact: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/240447
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