Ca. 600 AD A silver strap end with zoomorphic strap-end detailed with a panel of niello inlay. For similar see: Published Hammond, B. British Artefacts, volume 2 - Middle Saxon & Viking, Witham, 2010. Literature Cf. Smith, R.A. British Museum Guide to Anglo-Saxon Antiquities, Trustees of the British Museum, 1923, p.107, fig.131(3). Size: L:33mm / W:13mm ; 4.66g Provenance: From the private collection of an Essex gentleman; previously in an old British Collection, formed in the 1990s.