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LOT 1763
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Brooch with Horse-Head Terminal
LATER 5TH CENTURY A.D.
3 in. (3 5/8 in.) (27.2 grams, 76 mm (54.8 grams total, 92 mm including stand)).
A bronze cruciform brooch of early type comprising: square headplate with rectangular wings and three knops modelled in the round, shallow bow with ribbed median panel, lappets to the footplate, horse-head finial with pellet eyes and nostrils, pin-lug and catch to the reverse, old collector's label '15233'; mounted on a custom-made stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of an English gentleman; formerly in a UK collection formed 1970s-1990s.
From an old private collection of Norfolk, UK, gentleman, formed since 1998.
See West, S. A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, for discussion, especially fig.145, item 17.
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LOT 1763
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Cruciform Brooch with Horse-Head Terminal
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
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