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Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch
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LOT 1814

Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch

6TH CENTURY A.D.

3 1/4 in. (68.7 grams, 82 mm).

With rectangular headplate, shallow bow, foot absent; pin-lugs and catch to the reverse; the headplate with lozengiform panels to the upper corners and broad frame with ring-and-triangle stamped ornament; inner raised frame with opposed-triangle stamping, guilloche border with a raised square at each corner bearing punched pellet; high-relief Salin's Style I beast to the centre above the end of a vertical bar; broad, almost flat bow with lateral ribs and vertical bar, pierced by a stud to accept an applied disc (absent); lappets of Salin's Style I profile horse-heads flanking the junction of the bow with the footplate. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. See Hines, J., A New Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Great Square-Headed Brooches, London, 1997, items 13(a) Tuxford (with disc-on-bow feature), 36(b) Alveston manor (vertical bar and lozenge panels on headplate).

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LOT 1814

Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Great Square-Headed Brooch

Sold for (Inc. bp): £234

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