Mid 8th-mid 9th century AD. A bronze bridle strap mount with an Oseberg Style beast modelled in the half-round, the sinuous limbs contorted around the body formed as a bulbous chest and slender lower area; the head placed above, facing, with small pellet eyes and arched brow; rectangular loop to one end, and two circular piercings in the beast's body to accept attachment rivets. Cf. Thomas, G., Late Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age Strap-Ends 750-1100: Part 2, Finds Research Group datasheet 33, Sleaford, 2007, item 37, for type.11.4 grams, 49mm (2"). Found Haverhill, Suffolk, UK. The mount resembles strap ends of Thomas's Class G with a twisted zoomorph at the lower end, which probably derive from objects of this type. [No Reserve]