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LOT 1542
Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Mount
6TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (2.9 grams, 33 mm).
Comprising a mounting lug to the reverse, hole to one end; raised border and panel of three-band Style I ornament. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Saxmundham, Suffolk, UK.
LiteratureCf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, p.137, item 13 (fragment).
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