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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

CONDITION

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LOT 0326

Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Animal Style 1 Mount

Sold for (Inc. bp): £780

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