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LOT 1665

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Current bid: £95 (+bp*)
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(5 Bids, Reserve met)   |   Current bid: £95
ANGLO-SCANDINAVIAN VIKING BRONZE HOWLING BEAST STIRRUP APEX MOUNT
11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (22.8 grams, 48 mm).

Heater-shaped in profile with trefoil knop above; high-relief profile wolf with head thrown back and one forepaw raised; ledge to reverse with remains of ferrous studs; Williams's Class A, type 11. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Found Gloucestershire, UK.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts, York, 1997, item 217, 219, for type.

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