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LOT 1742
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Beast Facing Back Applied Brooch Face
6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (2.61 grams, 30 mm).
With two bands of beading to the border, low-relief repoussé image of a regardant beast in profile, small cross above the rump. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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.
Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, item 10-4.
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LOT 1742
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Beast Facing Back Applied Brooch Face
Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
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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. -
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Beast Facing Back Applied Brooch Face
6th-8th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
With two bands of beading to the border, low-relief repoussé image of a regardant beast in profile, small cross above the rump. 2.61 grams, 30 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. -
Saxon Human Skull Cap
Circa 6th-8th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
Dome with portion of frontal bone and orbits; inked collector's legend 'VM30'. 169 grams, 12.5 cm
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
N.B. This lot is for collection only.
