Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Brooch Terminal with Face Mask

CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.

1 1/4 in. (7.8 grams, 33 mm).

Formed as a T-shaped finial from a florid cruciform brooch, with facing mask and pellet eyes, lateral bird-head lappets, pelta-shaped panel below; attachment lug to reverse and old collector's inked number '84.144'. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found UK.
From an important old Mayfair collection.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Literature

Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, pl.152 (6), for type.

CONDITION

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