Gilt copper-alloy, 4.72 grams, 25.59 mm. 10th century AD. Champ-levé enamelling was a technique adopted by the Anglo-Saxons only towards the end of the 10th century. The present piece consists of a circular deep-blue background with heart-shaped inserts in blue and green around a central disc with short radiating arms. The enamelwork is contained within a copper-alloy rim which extends to an outer border, from which emerge seven satellite discoid lobes with spherical blue glass inserts of whih one remains. The spring lug is in place on the reverse, which is gilded, and the attachment point for the catchplate. The piece is reminiscent of the Brasenose Disc (now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) and of several 10th-11th century Anglo-Saxon disc brooches, all with curvilinear cruciform motifs. Reference: Backhouse, J. Turner, D.H. & Webster, L. The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066, London, 1984, items 91-3. Very fine condition.