Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Horse Stirrup Apex Mount

11TH CENTURY A.D.

2 in. (16.4 grams, 52 mm).

Of Williams’s Class A Type 5 formed as a pentagonal plate with two tendrils above, each with a scrolled end, joining at the apex to form a beast-head with the attachment loop in its mouth; narrow ledge to the lower rear above two rivet holes, one with ferrous remains; the apex extending to the rivet hole. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From a UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Literature

Cf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts, CBA Research Report 111, London, 1997, items 95 (punched point ornament) and 92 (single rivet hole).

CONDITION

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