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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]
ProvenanceFound 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.
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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