English: Anglo-Saxon silver strap-end. The strap-end has lost its tip, which would have been a zoomorphic terminal. Within a finely notched outer border with the appearance of loosely twisted filigree, the central field has a single backward-looking animal in Trewhiddle style. The animal, whose pointed ear fits neatly in the corner of the field, has its front paw extended in front and the back stretched behind. The space below its belly is an interlace infill, and more interlace is formed by the trailing tail of the animal, whilst its tongue forms a triquetra above its back. The silver design, enlivened by notches, typical of the Trewhiddle style, and matching creatures found in other metalwork and manuscripts of the time, would have stood out on a background of black shiny niello, now entirely lost. The split end has now opened, and only one of the rivets is still in place; one of the holes that would have fixed the second is torn. For similar strap-ends with zoomorphic Trewhiddle-style decoration, dating to the 9th century, see L Webster and J Backhouse (eds.) The Making of England, London 1991, nos. 191-94.