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Comprising a profile image of a horse with fur texture on the flank, a facing mask on its back with horns above the cap forming a suspension loop; Volga-Finnic type. 2.73 grams, 30 mm wide



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Disc brooch with low-relief regardant beast within a pelleted border, catchplate and pin-lugs to the reverse. 7.59 grams, 28 mm



Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection.

Heart-shaped in plan with central piriform keeled boss, niello-inlaid floral design; lip to rear and three attachment pins; traces of ferrous backing. 23.5 grams, 53 mm



Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. Westminster collection, central London, UK.

Of Williams Type 2, formed as a flat triangular plate broken across the hole which originally held the iron bit in place, from one corner the elongated terminal extends into a rounded swelling and ends in a rounded knob, possibly suggesting an animal snout; one edge of the plate with a central projecting lobe, used to form the nose of a stylised face with engraved detail resembling the paired spirals flowing up to form arching eyebrows and and eye features; above right of the face running up the top of the fitting an engraved piece of knotwork creating a four-lobed design of a band running off from the the knotwork towards the break. 36.7 grams, 63 mm



Found whilst searching with a metal detector in Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, UK. Property of a Kent gentleman, a specialist medieval collector. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.KENT-FD1DDE.

Annular suspension loop with pendant axehead, punched roundels to one face. 2.96 grams, 49 mm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

With a round-section tappering pin, ribbed collar and a globular head with applied pellets and engraved linear motif. 26.3 grams, 62 mm



Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection.

With raised triangular body panel, ribbed neck and pellet eyes flanking the head; pin-lugs and catch to reverse; inked collector's number '211x2'. 13.9 grams, 63 mm



Ex West Country, UK, collection, 1990s.

Comprising a flat triangular plate with an integral hook at the apex; perforated for attachment at upper corners and with a beaded outer edge; the hook complete, D-shaped in cross-section with shallow step at the junction with the plate; obverse with lightly incised design of seven dots connected by straight lines; base of the hook with low-relief panels and lateral notches; Read's Class A, type 1. T 3.5 grams, 36 mm



Found East Sussex, UK, on 26th February 2017; declared as potential Treasure under the Treasure Act with Treasure reference no.2017T353, subsequently disclaimed and returned to the finder. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.SUSS-624040. Accompanied by a copy of a letter from the British Museum explaining that the Crown's interest in this find has been disclaimed.

Read's Class A, type 1 with a triangular sharp-hooked plate and two rivet holes and Lewis and Naylor's (2013) Type B1.c.i with triangular plate and incised linear decoration. The type has been dated to the mid- to later Anglo-Saxon period and a number are now recorded on the PAS database, including WILT-7E2A83 (lacking the border and with more elaborate lobes at the attachment end) and CAM-1DFCE2 (more elaborately decorated).

A Winchester Type tongue-shaped openwork strap end, formed as three branches expanding from a small square stand on a rectangular plaque. 13 grams, 41.6 mm



Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection.

Of Williams’s Class A Type 1, featuring an incised design of two addorsed beasts; ledge to reverse and two rivet holes to the base, one with rivet in situ, the apex loop absent. 17.7 grams, 42 mm



From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Discoid brooch with raised pelleted border, entwined regardant beast with ribbed details to the body; pin bar and catchplate to the reverse. 8.43 grams, 25.2 mm



Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From an East Anglian private collection.

Sub-rectangular in plan and plano-convex in section, tapering to a rounded point at each end; gently-curved S-shaped profile. 26.16 grams, 52 mm



Acquired in the 1970s-1980s. Property of a Kent gentleman, a specialist medieval collector.