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LOT 1865
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Bow Brooch
6TH CENTURY A.D.
3 1/2 in. (34 grams, 89 mm).
With square headplate and three pelta-shaped radiating plaques with incised linear detailing, deep bow with chamfered ends, footplate with transverse ribbed collars, trapezoidal finial, pin-lug and catchplate to the reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Lincolnshire, UK, prior to a Time Team dig on an important Iron Age and Roman site.
Ex Kelway collection; formed between 1975 and 2015.
Property of a Californian, USA, collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Published
Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme with reference number LIN-5411D2; accompanied by a print out of the PAS report.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. & Bolick, E., A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (Non-Ferrous Metals), Oxford, 1993, item 15.55.
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