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LOT 1330

Anglo-Saxon Bronze Square-Headed Long Brooch

6TH CENTURY A.D.

3 3/8 in. (75 grams, 86 mm high including stand).

Decorative dimples and annulets over the body; pin lug and catchplate to reverse; mounted on a custom-made display stand and accompanied by descriptive text reading: 'Anglo-Saxon Small Long brooch Square headed type...Found Icklingham, Sfk [Suffolk] Leeds# square-headed (panelled) type as classified in Arch: XCI, 1945. Cf. Fig. 20 a, and others there for the decoration and foot shape.' [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Icklingham, Suffolk, UK.
From the Hattatt collection, 1985.
Ex Astarte collection with reference no.00/561/09.

Published

Published in Hattatt 1985, IARB, no.668.

CONDITION

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LOT 1330

Anglo-Saxon Bronze Square-Headed Long Brooch

Sold for (Inc. bp): £286

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