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Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,680
(Gilt bronze, 22 grams, 47 mm.).
Circa 6th-7th century AD. A cast gilt bronze harness mount comprising a flat disc decorated with four panels of Style II interlace, one with a serpent's head, separated by bars with guilloche ornament and surrounded by a billetted border; the centre a pierced disc of bone; the remains of a rectangular extension to one side; on the reverse, four pierced attachment lugs.
PROVENANCE:
From the private collection of R Winterton, acquired from the finder in 2009.
LITERATURE:
Cf. very similar mount published in Mills, N. Saxon and Viking Artefacts, item AS147.
FOOTNOTES:
Broad disc mounts of this kind were present on the horse harness discovered in Mound 17 at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, the presumed grave of a junior member of the East Anglian royal house.
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