The best thing about having an artefact in your hands is being able to turn it around & look at it from all angles.
This view of the base of the Cricklade pommel cap allows us to see that the gold filigree decoration was applied to a thin gold outer sheath that covered the copper alloy cap beneath.

Gig night last night at the Jam Jar in Bristol with the mighty @joquailcello.bsky.social
As beautiful and powerful in this tiny space as she is in huge concert halls.

Support from local act "Dead Space Chamber Music".

@jaztherunologist.bsky.social

Not a purse mount, the two copper alloy mounts were fitted to a leather case which contained a set of scales and weights.
Photo shows the find in situ and the link takes you to some images of a reconstruction that I own.
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Lovely buckle from Grave 115, Gieising, Southern Munich. Iron buckle with silver inlay and a silver buckle plate with niello inlay. 7th century.

Garter strap ends, silver, from a female tomb (#49) at the Basilica of St Denis. Late 6th century (one is genuine, the other a repro). They seemingly depict Heiðrún, the goat that eats the foliage of the tree Lædaðr & produces mead for the einherjar & Veðrfölnir the hawk that sits in the tree.

A late 6th century buckle of silver with a runic inscription, found in a male weapon burial at Pforzen, Bavaria.
Simmons translates the inscription as "Aigil and Alrun fought the entire war-band" which reflects the scene on the Franks casket in which we see Ægil and his wife under siege.