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LOT 0295
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Double Beast-Headed Mount
6TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (13.7 grams, 38 mm).
Pelta-shaped in plan, formed as a vertical column with flared base developing to a transverse crescent ending in dragon-heads with open jaws and curled upper lips placed against the column; punched pellet and crescent detailing.
Provenance
Found Barton Mills, Suffolk, UK.
Literature
Cf. Hines, J., A New Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches, London, 1997, item 23, for similar addorsed dragon heads with curled lips.
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