10th-11th century A.D.. Two tongue-shaped panels forming two of the three arms of a trefoil brooch; each with a low-relief design of ring-and-dot motifs connected by straps with lateral spurs. Cf. Roesdahl, E & Wilson, D. From Viking to Crusader. Scandinavia and Europe 800-1200, Uddevalla, 1992, item 137, for type. 17.6 grams total, 37 mm each (1 3/8 in.).

The two panels bear the same design and clearly belong o the same brooch; the variation in their modern appearance is probably due to the soil conditions in which they were preserved.

Found Suffolk, UK. From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998. [2, No Reserve]