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LOT 1007

Anglo-Saxon Gilt-Bronze Cruciform Brooch, Beads and Wrist Clasps Group

LATE 6TH CENTURY AD

6" (179 grams total, brooch: 15 cm).

A suite of Anglian female costume items comprising: a florid cruciform brooch with trapezoidal headplate and wings, three peripheral florid plaques each with a Style I face, deep bow with Style I crouching animals, trapezoidal footplate with raised eyes beneath and florid face finial, T-shaped silver appliqués to the four extremities, catchplate to the reverse and ferrous remains of the pin and attachment rods for the plaques; a matched pair of wrist-clasps with integral scrolled gusset plates (Hines's Form B18) with four discoid panels to each element; a restrung group of fusiform, discoid and globular amber beads with five biconical crystal beads and two green glass tubular beads. [4]

Provenance

Property of a Nottinghamshire gentleman; found Norfolk, UK, in 1987.

Literature

Cf. Hammond. B. British Artefacts vol. 1 Early Anglo-Saxon, items 1.1.4.1-k, 1.3.2-b & c, 2.1.1-a, 1.27-a-c; Pollington, S., Kerr, L. & Hammond, B. Wayland's Work, p.230, 268, 296; West, S. A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, fig.152/8 from West Stow; Brugmann, B. Glass Beads from Early Anglo-Saxon Graves; Hines, J. Clasps Hektespenner Agrafen, fig.115.

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