Copper-alloy, enamel and silver, 15.66 grams, 57.55 mm. 6th-7th century AD. A dished elliptical mount with a central enamelled panel rising to the cast hook at the top. The convex-sided medial panel features a simple interlace design based on two crossing lines reserved against the yellow enamel background. The surface of the mount to the left of the panel bears a similar interlace design in silver-wire inlay with fine pointwork texturing; to the right, this feature is no longer detectable but the silver-inlaid border is present in part. The cast hook is decorated with a medial incised panel. Bowl-mounts of this kind were produced in Ireland, Scotland (Dal Riada and Pictland) and possibly elsewhere in Britain; they often occur in high-status Anglo-Saxon burials (especially burial mounds) of the later 6th and 7th centuries on large bowls or cauldrons, where they probably represent diplomatic gifts or tribute. They continued to be produced in Ireland into the Viking period. Reference: cf. hanging bowl mounts from Akenham, Barham and Ipswich in West. S. A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998 fig.1.3, 6.59, 69.1. Very fine condition. Provenance: from an collection.