9th-12th century AD. A silver flat-section disc pendant with integral tubular loop, four decorative bands to front face of loop which is slightly concave, openwork motif of a regardant beast with segmented body; pelletted border. See Korshyn, V.E., Yazicheskiye Priveski Drevniye Rysi X-XIV, Vekov, Moscow, 2013, for comparable objects. 8.3 grams, 38mm (1 1/2"). Property of a Staffordshire, UK, gentleman; formerly the property of a private collector; acquired in Munich, Germany, in the late 1980s.