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LOT 1729
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Artefact Fragments
6TH CENTURY A.D.
5/8 - 2 in. (217 grams total, 15-53 mm).
Including: cruciform brooch, button brooch, disc brooch, wrist clasp, belt mounts and other items, some with traces of gilding. [35, 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 Bronze Disc Brooch with Beast Facing Back
900-1000 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Discoid in plan with low-relief regardant beast within a beaded border, remains of lug and catch to reverse. 6.78 grams, 28 mm
Found near Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, UK, on Sunday 1st September 2024. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme Report no.SF-0A4178. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Pin Head with Animals
7th-8th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Comprising a flat discoid head and narrow round-section shank; the head with low-relief cruciform design, zoomorphic scroll in each spandrel and central piercing to accept a stud. 4.38 grams, 37 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.