Copper-alloy, 12.37 grams, 48.12 mm. 11th century AD. A cast D-section mount with a flat reverse. The design is in the late Viking Urnes Style, with an 8-shaped animal body amid a tracery of curved tendrils. Similar fine metalwork is characteristic of the Anglo-Scandinavian and later Viking periods. Reference: Backhouse, J., Turner, D.H., Webster, L. The Golden Age of Anglo-Saxon Art 966-1066, London, 1984, p.111 item 107. Extremely fine condition. Provenance: found Kent, England.