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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]
ProvenanceFound Icklingham, Suffolk, UK.
From the Hattatt collection, 1985.
Ex Astarte collection with reference no.00/561/09.
Published in Hattatt 1985, IARB, no.668.
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Anglo-Saxon Enamelled Bronze Bird Brooch
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