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LOT 1716
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GBP (£) 60 - 80
EUR (€) 69 - 93
USD ($) 80 - 107
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) (+bp*)
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ANGLO-SAXON BROOCH TERMINAL WITH RAVENS
6TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (5.15 grams, 22 mm).
6TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (5.15 grams, 22 mm).
Pelta-shaped with plaque with median panel of knotwork and pellets, flanking addorse bird-heads each with pellet eye and hooked beak; attachment lugs to reverse. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Found Gloucestershire, UK.
LITERATURE:
See Martin, T., The Cruciform Brooch and Anglo-Saxon England, Woodbridge, 2015, for discussion.
FOOTNOTES:
Plaques of this type were made as separate castings to be affixed to the three radiating arms of the cruciform brooch.
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