Copper-alloy, 43.23 grams, 68.79 mm. Circa 10th-12th century AD. A sheet copper-alloy bracelet formed from a thin (1 - 1.5mm) plate, expending towards the central section and recurved at each end. The closed ends each hold a small copper-alloy ring. The ends are decorated with punched geometric patterns of square points and s-curves, annulets and dot-in-triangles, forming two outer bands with a quincunx of annulets in the middle. Reference: cf. Sedov, V.V. Finno-Ugri i Balti v Epokhy Srednevekoviya, Moscow, 1987, p.257 item 36. Very fine condition, complete. Provenance: from an old English collection.