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LOT 1411
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Apex Stirrup Mount
11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (22.39 grams, 47 mm).
With pentagonal body bearing zoomorphic designs, pierced close to the apex for attachment to a stirrup-strap, with two holes close to the lower edge and ledge to the reverse; Williams's Class A Type 16.
Provenance
Found Hampshire, UK.
Literature
Cf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts, York, 1997, item 361, for type.
Footnotes
This mount is not typical of the Class but the trilobe 'topknot' at the apex is clearly based on the design of Type 16 with a facing animal-head.
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LOT 1411
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Apex Stirrup Mount
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
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