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Anglo-Saxon Brooch Terminal with Ravens Anglo-Saxon Brooch Terminal with Ravens Anglo-Saxon Brooch Terminal with Ravens
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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]

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.

CONDITION
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LOT 1716

Anglo-Saxon Brooch Terminal with Ravens

Sold for (Inc. bp): £117

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