File:Anglo Saxon mount (FindID 66868).jpg

English: Gilded copper-alloy disc with central perforation. Arranged concentrically from around the central perforation are two plain rings, a zone of zoomporphic ornamentation, a plain ring, a beaded ring, a plain ring, a ring containing arch and dot ornamentation (groups of two concentric arches containing a dot), and finally a ring with fine incised lines giving the edge a milled appearance. The reverse is undecorated and has no trace of any means of attachment.

The zoomorphic decoration is clearly shown but a little hard to decode. One animal is clear, in profile with a head with headframe around a large round eye, triple-strand neck leading to a foreleg beginning at a drop-shaped shoulder and ending in a three-toed foot; the triple strand continues, to form the body, leading to a similar rear leg but with five toes. Beyond this the triple strand appears to continue, and there are other animal body parts but apparently now jumbled up. The ornament appears to be in late Style I and therefore the object should date to the late 6th century.

Diameter 40.7mm, thickness 2.5mm, weight 17.52g. A similar object appears in the Ashmolean Museum's Catalogue of Anglo Saxon Collections, p239-240, no.47.5, from Standlake, Oxfordshire, dated to the 7th century. It is suggested there that such objects could have decorated boxes, leather breast-plates or other clothing, but several have now been re-evaluated as mounts from horse-harness.