Record Details
| NHER Number: | 37557 |
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| Type of record: | Find Spot |
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| Name: | Late Saxon stirrup |
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Summary
Metal-detecting in 2002 recovered a Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount with engraved beasts.
Images - none
Location
Full description
October 2002. Metal detecting.
Late Saxon copper alloy stirrup-strap mount, quite worn, decorated with engraved addorsed beasts beneath pendant lobe, the outline of heads creating knobbed profile, flange at base with single corrosion-filled rivet-hole, 26 x 35mm.
See (S1), simplified version of Class A, type 1. 11th century. Digital image.
Identified by S.J. Ashley (NLA).
A. Rogerson (NLA), 29 November 2002.
Monument Types
- FINDSPOT (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Associated Finds
- STIRRUP (Late Saxon - 851 AD to 1065 AD)
Protected Status - none
Sources and further reading
| --- | Photograph: I & RS. Digital finds image. |
| <S1> | Monograph: Williams, D. 1997. Late Saxon stirrup-strap mounts. A classification and catalogue. A contribution to the study of Late Saxon ornamental metalwork.. CBA Research Report. No. 111. pp 26-34. |
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