Lead, 20.14 grams, 22.27 mm. Circa 8th-10th century AD. A lead hemisphere with a rounded upper surface into which a panel of gilt-bronze has been embedded, bearing a design of a plain central roundel surrounded by radiating billets. The gilt-bronze item is possibly a portion of an Irish or Anglo-Saxon mount. This piece would have been used as a hnefi or king-piece in the board-game hnefatafl. Reference: Pollington, S. Mead Hall – Feasting in Anglo-Saxon England, Hockwold-cum-Wilton, 2003, p.136, 220. Good very fine condition. Provenance: found Lincolnshire.