Anglo-Saxon Red and Yellow Enamelled Interlace Mount
7th-8th century A.D. A rectangular copper-alloy mount with a slightly curved profile, the upper face with a yellow-enamelled interlaced knot against a red-brown enamelled field; Hiberno-Saxon workmanship. Cf. Youngs, S. (ed.), The Work of Angels. Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork, 6th-9th centuries AD, London, 1989, item 112, 131, 132, for type. 6.65 grams, 29 mm (1 1/8 in.). Found UK.Acquired in the 1990s.From a North Yorkshire private collection, UK. It is likely that this is a mount from a house-shrine or similar piece of ecclesiastical equipment with studs to the underside and a hole at each end to accept a rivet.