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Anglo-Saxon Bronze Regardant Beast Disc Brooch Anglo-Saxon Bronze Regardant Beast Disc Brooch Anglo-Saxon Bronze Regardant Beast Disc Brooch
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LOT 1238

Anglo-Saxon Bronze Regardant Beast Disc Brooch

8TH-9TH CENTURY A.D.

1 in. (6.96 grams, 28.8 mm).

Comprising a flat-section disc with reserved regardant beast within a pelletted border, catchplate to the reverse. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Norfolk, Southern England.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.

Accompanied by an old Norfolk Castle Museum record slip.

Literature

Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, fig.15, item 6.

CONDITION
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LOT 1238

Anglo-Saxon Bronze Regardant Beast Disc Brooch

Sold for (Inc. bp): £46

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