An English Romanesque Mount and Three Ninth-Century Strap-Ends

This note discusses several recent English finds of early medieval ornamental metalwork shown at the Society of Antiquaries on I6 May 2002: most notably, a Romanesque mount with open-work foliate decoration having clear parallels with Norman and Anglo-Norman ornament of c II00-2 5 . Four ninth-century Anglo-Saxon strap-ends are also described and illustrated, two of which have decorative features with links to contemporary larger-scale works but rarer within the corpus of strap-ends; the other two being unusual examples of East Anglian niello and silver-wire inlay.