8th-10th century AD. An upper stirrup mount comprising a quadrangular gilt-bronze chip-carved medial panel with developed fret motif of intersecting lozenges with two extending lateral arms, each with thick rim and knotwork pattern, right arm damaged in antiquity; two discoid lobes with dish surfaces the lower edge; traces of gilding remaining; two pierced lugs to the reverse. Cf. Webster, L. & Backhouse, J. The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991, p.142 item 107(a), for the Strickland mount. Hammond, B., British Artefacts, volume 2 - Middle Saxon & Viking, Witham, 2010. 12.05 grams, 62.88mm (2 1/2"). From an old collection; acquired on the UK art market.