Silver, 4.22 grams, 17.11 mm. Circa 11th century AD. A beautiful quadrangular mount featuring an arrangement of four lozenges to form a cross with four interstitial vesica-shaped motifs. The mount is pierced at each corner for attachment to a belt, scabbard or horse furniture. The arrangement is paralleled by lozengiform panels on the carpet pages of the Kederminster Gospels of ca. 1020 AD, an English (Anglo-Saxon) work from the reign of King Cnut. Reference: Backhouse, J., Turner, D.H., and Webster, L. The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066, London, 1984, p.69-71 items 51 and 53. Very fine condition. Provenance: From an old European collection. This antiquity is accompanied by an XRF metal test certificate from Oxford X-ray Fluorescence Ltd.