 Early examples of Anglo @-@ Saxon art are largely metalwork , particularly bracelets , <unk> and jewellery , that has survived in pagan burials and in exceptional items such as the <unk> carved whalebone Franks <unk> , thought to have been produced in Northumbria in the early eighth century , which combines pagan , classical and Christian motifs . There is only one known pagan burial in Scotland , at Dalmeny Midlothian , which contains a necklace of beads similar to those found in mid @-@ seventh @-@ century southern England . Other isolated finds include a gold object from Dalmeny , shaped like a truncated pyramid , with <unk> and <unk> , similar to sword <unk> mounts found at Sutton <unk> . There is also a bun @-@ shaped <unk> from <unk> , <unk> and a ring with an Anglian <unk> inscription . From eastern Scotland there is a seventh @-@ century sword <unk> from <unk> Sands , Moray and the <unk> drinking horn mount . After Christianisation in the seventh century artistic styles in Northumbria , which then reached to the Firth of Forth , interacted with those in Ireland and what is now Scotland to become part of the common style historians have identified as Insular or Hiberno @-@ Saxon . 
