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LOT 1779
Anglo-Saxon Bronze Manuscript Page Holder
8TH-9TH CENTURY A.D.
3 3/4 in. (18.4 grams, 94 mm).
Formed as a pair of bottle-shaped plates attached to a tweezer shank with loop and suspension ring; traces of mineralised fabric to one face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
See Webster, L. & Backhouse, J., The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991, for similar.
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