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LOT 1670
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Artefact Collection
6TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 - 3 1/4 in. (107 grams total including documents, 19-81 mm).
Comprising: two buckles; a snake-head hook; a Hiberno-Norse strap end with interlaced design; two hooked tags; a fragmentary strap end and belt end; a large hooked tag with interlaced design. [10, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, UK.
From the private collection of Robin Sykes, Yorkshire, UK, formed since the late 1990s.
Three objects with record sheets by Jim Halliday plus accompanied by various other correspondence from Lincolnshire museum services.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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'The Middle Aston' Large Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Saucer Brooch with Bird Motif and Composite Boss
Late 5th-6th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
With a deep flange, chamfered inner ridge and eye-shaped motifs, second chamfered edge with a wide inner band of Style I bird motif decoration surrounding a central rivetted boss, catchplate and pin-lug to verso; signs of an academically interesting ancient rivetted repair to the outer flange; rare. 36 grams, 59 mm
Found whilst searching with a metal detector in Middle Aston, Cherwell, Oxfordshire, UK, on Wednesday 1st May 2024. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.OXON-B4DF83. This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Saucer brooches are a female Saxon fashion, contemporary with the Anglian penannular and cruciform types, normally worn at the shoulders to secure a tubular dress. -
Saxon Bronze Artefact Group
Circa 6th-9th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising: fragment of a lozenge brooch with chip-carved ornament; bifacial part of a buckle frame; beast-head finial from a strap-end (with later rivet hole); hooked fitting. 23.5 grams total, 19-76 mm
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, collector. From his private collection since the 1970s; thence by descent circa 2000. Ex private collection of a Bedfordshire gentleman. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
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Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Strap End with Beast Facing Back
Circa 750-900 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Teardrop-shaped fitting with split upper edge and securing rivets; palmette motif below the rivets, reserved scrolled best motif on a niello(?) field, beast-head finial. 11.7 grams, 47 mm
Found near Skirpenbeck, Yorkshire, UK, in 2017. From an old Yorkshire, UK, collection. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.YORYM-FEAD9E. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
