English: Copper-alloy mount, long and narrow. One end is broken and the other has an animal-head terminal. The animal-head terminal is in 9th-century style, with a brow and nose in one piece and a bulbous eye to either side of the concave-sided nose. Each eye has a central dot. In the middle of the brow is a rivet hole blocked with copper-alloy corrosion; this runs through the thickest part of the mount, nearly 6 mm thick. Behind the brow of the head is a transverse ridge with a short central groove crossing it. Behind this is the central panel of the mount, which tapers in thickness away from the head. It is decorated with a rectilinear pattern divided into two rows of 11 squares, each one filled with black ?niello and with a saltire of reserved metal in the centre. The broken end, beyond the central panel, is flat and comparatively thin (1 mm thick). The reverse is flat. The mount is 48 mm in surviving length and 9 mm wide at most. I have not seen a parallel to this mount and can only conjecture as to what it was used for, but such narrow strip-like mounts were used on small wooden boxes in the 12th century and later and it may be from something similar.