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LOT 1733
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Artefact Collection
6TH CENTURY A.D. AND LATER
5/8 - 1 3/4 in. (41 grams total, 15-43 mm).
Including: ansate brooch, wrist clasp, hooked tags, pyramid mount and other items, some with gilding. [8, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound East Anglia, UK.
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 Iron Nail Collection
6th-7th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising square- and discoid nail heads, each with the stub of the round- or square-section shank. 619 grams total, 36-56 mm
Found Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, UK. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Brooch
5th-6th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Comprising a rectangular headplate flanked by rectangular panes, each with an integral domed boss; deep carinated bow with ribbing at each end; pelta-shaped foot with flange pierced in two places (for attachment of bead swags); pin-lug in ferrous accretion and catch to reverse. 14 grams, 55 mm
Found East Anglia, UK. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
The brooch is unusual in having a fully-developed cruciform headplate and bow, but a simple flanged foot rather than the normal horse-head style. It is paralleled in West's corpus in fig.153 (1) where a similar melding of cruciform and small-long elements is found. -
Large Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch Fragment
6th century A.D.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £94
Comprising a rectangular headplate with concentric rectangles bearing ropework, hatching and punched detailing; bow with three vertical ribs, punched detail in the recesses; pin-lug to reverse. 55.2 grams, 63 mm
Formerly from a collection of a Kent, UK, collector established from the 1990s. Property of a private collector, West London, UK. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
