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LOT 1619
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Bear Mask Mount
6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (6.85 grams, 22 mm).
Piriform in plan and plano-convex in section with raised vertical rib for the nose, two scaphoid eyes, remains of D-shaped lateral ears. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Norfolk, UK, circa 2007.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK.
Literature
Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, pl.22(17).
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