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LOT 1790
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Borre Style Disc Brooch
10TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (6.05 grams, 28 mm).
With a central annular motif from which issue four bilinear tendrils, each ending in a coiled loop; a catchplate and lug to the reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Norfolk, UK.
Literature
Cf. similar example from Wetheringsett, Suffolk, in West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, item 134(8).
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