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LOT 1716
Anglo-Saxon Brooch Terminal with Ravens
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]
ProvenanceFound Gloucestershire, UK.
LiteratureSee Martin, T., The Cruciform Brooch and Anglo-Saxon England, Woodbridge, 2015, for discussion.
FootnotesPlaques of this type were made as separate castings to be affixed to the three radiating arms of the cruciform brooch.
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