File:Early-medieval bridle cheekpiece fragment (FindID 16632).jpg

English: Cast copper alloy harness cheekpiece fragment; flat roughly oval openwork plate tapers in width slightly towards one edge; the mount has engraved detail on the front surface and is in the form of a backward-looking profiled beast's head with spines on its neck, defined by four protruding curves along one edge of plate, each decorated with a central ring-and-dot; immediately behind the head where the curvature of the neck is most pronounced is a prominent crest, again decorated at its outer edge with three ring-and-dots; the head of the beast has a bump over the eye which is represented by 2 punched ring-and-dots, the animal's mouth is shown gaping and extended with a bump above its nostrils which are represented by ring-and-dots; the mount is broken beyond this point, though the curve of the metal suggests there would have been an additional openwork piercing; the extant oval piercings are placed in-between the beast's jaws and in-between the lower jaw and its neck; the reverse is plain; this is an example of a series of Anglo-Scandinavian harness fitting decorated with zoomorphic motifs related to the Ringerike and Urnes styles of Viking art; as MDS 004z