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LOT 1682
Anglo-Saxon Tinned Bronze Gusset Plate
6TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/4 in. (4.46 grams, 32 mm).
Gently curved plaque with median waist, five punched concentric roundels with punched triangles to the borders. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Gloucestershire, UK.
Literature
See Hines, J., Clasps-Hektespenner-Agraffen, Stockholm, 1993, for discussion.
Footnotes
The plate is not of the standard triangular form and appears to be broken at one end; the stamped ornament has parallels in 5th-6th century brooches and mounts.
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