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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.
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