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LOT 1625
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Artefact Group
CIRCA 9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
3/8 - 1 7/8 in. (36 grams total, 10-48 mm).
Including a strap end with bird-head finial, polyhedral pin-heads and other items. [7, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Suffolk, UK.
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Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Horse-Harness Strap Junction
9th-11th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
D-section shank with ribbed collar, D-shaped loop to each end with ribbing. 31.9 grams, 67 mm
Found whilst searching with a metal detector in East Anglia, UK. -
Viking Age Iron Broad Axehead
Circa 9th-11th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
With broad curved blade and pointed chin, broad neck, deep socket with square reverse. 222 grams, 13 cm
From the collection of a Californian, USA, gentleman, dating back to the late 1960s. -
Viking Bronze Borre Style Brooch Set
10th-11th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,170
Comprising: two elliptical bronze tortoise brooches, each domed with raised ornament of four Borre-style faces with pellet eyes to the centre of a panel of body parts and hatching with two more faces to the narrow ends, wide flange, catchplate, pin-hinge and pendant attachment bar to the reverse; equal-arm brooch with two trapezoidal arms, each with raised Borre-Style geometric ornament, masks to the ends and central domed panel, lugs for the pin to the reverse, pierced lug to accept the chain; short chains of double-links. 280 grams total, 7.2 - 50.5 cm
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
