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LOT 1767
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Disc Brooch with Regardant Beast
10TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (8.09 grams, 28 mm).
Discoid in plan with low-relief regardant beast within a beaded border, lug and catch to reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Norfolk, UK.
Literature
Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, pl.6(3).
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