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LOT 2132
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze 'Entwined Beasts' Horse Stirrup Apex Mount
9TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (17.7 grams, 42 mm).
Of Williams’s Class A Type 1, featuring an incised design of two addorsed beasts; ledge to reverse and two rivet holes to the base, one with rivet in situ, the apex loop absent. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts – A Classification and Catalogue, CBA Research Report 111, Oxford, 1997, p.26ff.
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LOT 2132
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze 'Entwined Beasts' Horse Stirrup Apex Mount
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Viking Age Bronze Axehead Pendant
Circa 9th-11th century A.D. or earlierEstimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Formed as a miniature axehead with a broad blade, with a coiled suspension ring. 1.05 grams, 36 mm
Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman. -
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Bridle Cheek Piece with Knotwork and Beasts
11th century A.D.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Of Williams Type 2, formed as a flat triangular plate broken across the hole which originally held the iron bit in place, from one corner the elongated terminal extends into a rounded swelling and ends in a rounded knob, possibly suggesting an animal snout; one edge of the plate with a central projecting lobe, used to form the nose of a stylised face with engraved detail resembling the paired spirals flowing up to form arching eyebrows and and eye features; above right of the face running up the top of the fitting an engraved piece of knotwork creating a four-lobed design of a band running off from the the knotwork towards the break. 36.7 grams, 63 mm
Found whilst searching with a metal detector in Folkestone and Hythe, Kent, UK. Property of a Kent gentleman, a specialist medieval collector. Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.KENT-FD1DDE. -
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Triangular Stirrup Apex Mount
Circa 10th-11th century A.D.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £50
Williams's Class A, triangular in plan with beast-head at the apex, three neat holes to the face and a collared knop to each lower corner, shallow ledge to reverse. 12.88 grams, 46 mm
Found Romney Marsh area, Kent, 1990-2015. Property of a Kent gentleman, a specialist medieval collector.
