Gilt copper-alloy, 8.26 grams, 23.69 mm. Circa 6th century AD. A large cast copper-alloy square mount with heavily gilded central field depicting a Style I beastman motif within a beaded border, surrounding a central square. At each corner is placed a round hole for the attachment rivets. The mount is probably from a high-status sword-belt. Reference: cf. similar items in West. S. A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998 pair of mounts from Icklingham (pl.52 item11.1,11.2 ) and stud from Coddenham (pl.23 item 10). Very fine condition, gilding substantially intact. Provenance: found Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, England.