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English: Enamelled mount from a hanging bowl of early-medieval date. It was originally circular, with a flat reverse and a decorated front. The decoration consists of a central circle from which spring three sets of clockwise-curving relief elements, forming a triskele. Each of the three elements is in fact a very elongated narrow pelta, with a circular dot in the thickest central part and a finer relief line around. A narrow solid pointed-oval fills the space between the peltas, close to the rounded end of one and the start of the next. The end of each pelta joins another curved element, this time with two thin strands, which quickly curves anticlockwise to join the double-strand border around the edge; the inner strand of this border is narrow, the outer thicker. Between the centre of each pelta and the border is a group of three small pointed-ovals which all diverge from one point.

Only one pelta survives complete. The edge is very fragmentary, and there may be no original edges surviving. A stub of a projecting element survives, probably part of a hook. Almost opposite this is an incomplete circular hole, cut through by the broken edge, and possibly a small fragment of another.

All of the enamel is now decayed to the same creamy yellowish colour. The reverse is flat or possibly (from the photo) slightly dished, with no obvious solder. It measures 43mm in diameter.

This design is a variant of Bruce-Mitford's four-spiral trumpet design, but with the spirals replaced by a central circle and anti-clockwise curves. A central circle can be found on a disc from Camerton (Bruce-Mitford 2005, cat. no. 7); other fairly close parallels come from from Marina Drive, Dunstable (cat. no. 8) and Oving (cat. no. 9). Both the Marina Drive and the Camerton discs have drilled holes, perhaps for secondary use as a pendant, and were found already detached from their bowls in 7th-century graves. Bruce-Mitford dates the manufacture of all three examples to the 7th century.

The decoration is similar to that of a die stamp from Cumbria, recorded as <a href="https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/777579">LANCUM-6597B4.</a>