10th-12th century AD. A silver bracelet comprising a D-section shank with beast-head finials, two lozenge plaques with trefoil detailing, median square plaque with incised text, the shank with blocks of niello-filled calligraphic text. 38 grams, 65mm (2 1/2"). Property of a Hampstead gentleman; from his family collection formed since the 1970s.