Silver, 1.10 grams, 7.94 mm. 7th-8th century AD. The terminal from an Anglo-saxon clothes- or hair-pin, cast in silver. The equine head with glass eyes extends to a c-shaped neck with transverse banded 'mane' detailing in niello inlay. Reference: for zoomorphic pin-terminals see Webster, L & Backhouse, J. The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991, p.98 fig.69(h). Published: Hammond, Brett. British Artefacts, volume 2 - Middle Saxon & Viking, Witham, 2010. Good very fine condition. Ex Lord Mc Alpine collection. This antiquity is accompanied by an XRF metal test certificate from Oxford X-ray Fluorescence Ltd.