11th-12th century A.D. A handle or finial formed as a stylised animal head, likely that of a wolf or domestic dog, with bulging eyes, open mouth and pricked ears, tapering curved neck terminating in a trapezoidal flange. Cf. The Portable Antiquities Scheme, record id.KENT-B13C33, for aparable example believed to date somewhere between the Iron Age to the middle of the medieval period, c.150 B.C.-1200 A.D. 28.1 grams, 48 mm (1 7/8 in.) German art market before 2000. With a European gentleman living in the UK. Property of a Surrey gentleman. [No Reserve]Condition Report: Fine condition.