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LOT 0326
Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Animal Style 1 Mount
CIRCA 6TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (7.4 grams, 35 mm).
Discoid with central tondo decorated with four impressed lentoids and surrounding pellet band, rim of Salin Style I Tiermensch motifs with remains of border.
Provenance
Found Saxmundham, Suffolk, UK, in 1979.
Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Literature
Cf. similar item recorded with the Portable Antiquities Scheme under reference WAW-D0BED7.
PAU/20003346/25
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