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LOT 1812
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Long Brooch
6TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/4 in. (11.7 grams, 56 mm).
With trefoil headplate, deep carinated bow, flared footplate; ferrous accretion to rear of headplate. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found UK, March 1998.
From the collection of a gentleman from the South West of England, his collection established from the 1990s.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, item 153(1).
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