Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Brooch with Horse-Head Terminal

LATER 5TH-6TH CENTURY A.D.

4 5/8 in. (5 1/8 in.) (54 grams, 11.7 cm (95.4 grams total, 13 cm including stand)).

Of Type West Stow Heath comprising: square headplate with punched horseshoe motifs, lateral trapezoidal wings and three radiating knops modelled in the half-round, deep bow with chamfered ends, collars above the footplate, horse-head finial with pellet eyes and bulb nostrils, loop finial, pin-lug and catch to the reverse with old collector's label '92.225'; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Provenance

Property of an English gentleman; formerly in a UK collection formed 1970s-1990s.
From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.

Literature

See West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, for discussion, especially fig.146, item 22.

CONDITION

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