Matrix for making pendants decorated in Borre style. Waterman 1959 says "The object of lead is apparently unique in this country. It has a cruciform body and bears a simple interlace in false-relief, with a fan shaped projection, showing crude zoomorphic indications at the top; the reverse is flat and plain. This object is clearly copied from a type of cruciform pendant with bird-head terminal which occurs, usually of silver and more rarely of gold, in several Viking and early medieval hoards, chiefly Denmark and Gotland but also, either in hoards or singly, in Sweden, Poland, north Germany, Russia and Iceland. This class of pendant has been discussed in connexion with the well known gold hoard from Hiddensee, Brandenburg, and more recently in a survey of the Danish hoards; the associated coin evidence indicates a wide range of date, the earliest example occuring in a hoard deposited c.960, the latest hoard of c.1090. Examples, other than gold or silver, seem to be lacking but a bronze object, somewhat similar to the York piece and like it not prepared for suspension, is known from the Trelleborg, Denmark."
