7th-8th century AD. A silver-gilt clothes- or hair-pin finial of an equine head with glass eyes, c-shaped neck with transverse banded 'mane' detailing in niello inlay; mounted on a custom-made stand. Cf. Webster, L & Backhouse, J. The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991, p.98, fig.69(h"). Hammond, Brett, British Artefacts, volume 2 - Middle Saxon & Viking, Witham, 2010, p.94, Fig.1.10-q. 11 grams, 21mm including stand (3/4"). Property of an London gentleman; previously in the Lord McAlpine collection.