Copper-alloy, 39.32 grams, 53.51 mm. 10th-11th century AD. A good example of a late Viking penannular brooch of eastern Baltic type. The band is formed from a single quadrangular-section bar which has been twisted to form a spiral across about half of the arc. The ends are plain circular-section rod which curve to form transverse-plate terminals: unusually, one terminal is circular and the other quadrangular, and both are decorated with incised decoration of a central saltire within a square surrounded by a row of punched pellets within an outer border. The pin is a lentoid-section rod expanding to a long triangular plate which loops around the band; punched dot detailing is placed on the expanded loop, while the pin is ornamented with panels of pellet decoration. Reference: Griciuviene, E. Ziemgaliai - The Semigallians, Latvian National Museum, 2005, item 1253. Provenance: from an old English collection.