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LOT 1621
Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Mount Group
CIRCA 6TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
5/8 - 1 1/8 in. (11.8 grams total, 15-28 mm).
Comprising: pelta-shaped bridle mount with three-band knotwork ornament to the obverse; lobed finial, possibly from a cruciform mount, with raised border and high-relief Insular Style knotwork. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, items 21, 9, 11, for type.
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