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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)
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