9th-10th century AD. A bronze Gotland-type fish pendant,posed of a tapering, round-section body with flat base and inverted triangular mouth holding a moveable bar, spended on a ring with twisted wire coils and stamped with small circles repeated on the bar below; the fish body decorated with four panels of low-relief Mammen Style interlacing with remains of gilding; two circular piercings to each side of the body. Cf. MacGregor, A. et al., A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 13.1, for similar. 23.2 grams, 72mm high (2 3/4"). Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. Westminster collection, central London, UK. Pendants of this type were worn strung together in gro, the tapering profile allowing them to sitfortably as a collar below the neck. They were often worn spended between two zoomorphic brooches. This example has been taken from a necklace and mounted on a spension ring for e as an amuletic pendant. [No Reserve]