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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]
ProvenanceFound 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.
Recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme with reference number LIN-5411D2; accompanied by a print out of the PAS report.
LiteratureCf. MacGregor, A. & Bolick, E., A Summary Catalogue of the Anglo-Saxon Collections (Non-Ferrous Metals), Oxford, 1993, item 15.55.
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