Copper-alloy, 9.83 grams, 35.37 mm. 10th-11th century AD. A finely-made hollow mount in the shape of one animal-head swallowing another. A ribbed bulb forms the brow flanked by elliptical bulb eyes above a gaping mouth and square-ended muzzle; between the jaws a second animal head emerges with its curled neck and ear within the mouth and its lentoid eyes placed beyond the larger creature's snout. The piece is the finial from a stirrup terminal, with the hollow back section for attachment to the main part of the stirrup. Reference: Backhouse, J. Turner, D.H. & Webster, L. The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066, London, 1984, item 41 and cf. Webster, L & Backhouse, J. The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991 p.241 fig.27 and p.223-4 items 178(a,b). Very fine condition. Provenance: found near Snettisham, Norfolk, England.