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LOT 1769
Anglo-Saxon Gilt Bronze Pin Head with Animals
7TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (4.38 grams, 37 mm).
Comprising a flat discoid head and narrow round-section shank; the head with low-relief cruciform design, zoomorphic scroll in each spandrel and central piercing to accept a stud. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Cf. Webster, L. & Backhouse, J., The Making of England. Anglo-Saxon Art and Culture AD 600-900, London, 1991, item 184.
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Opening Bid: £300
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Anglo-Saxon Bronze Applied Disc Brooch
Circa 5th-6th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £293
Discoid in plan with pin-lug, chord, pin and catch to the reverse; applied rim secured by four domed rivets; low-relief hexafoil motif with interstitial ring-and-dot motifs, segmented border. 16.9 grams, 48 mm
Found Cambridgeshire, UK. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s. From the private collection of an Essex gentleman.
Applied brooches are a recognised form of early Anglo-Saxon costume, associated mostly with Saxon areas such as Sussex and the Thames valley. The majority of such brooches are made up from a plain backplate with the pin and catch attached, and a thin front plate with repoussé ornament. The present example appears to be formed as a decorative body with an applied rim; there is evidence for this construction technique in the form of two unassociated rims from a grave at Fairford (Gloucestershire) (MacGregor & Bolick, item 1.39).
