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Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Plate Brooch with Beast Facing Back Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Plate Brooch with Beast Facing Back Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Plate Brooch with Beast Facing Back
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LOT 1731

Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Plate Brooch with Beast Facing Back

9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.

1 1/4 in. (9.51 grams, 31 mm).

Disc brooch with low-relief regardant beast motif within a segmented border; catchplate and pin-lugs to the reverse.

Provenance

Found Yoxford, Suffolk, UK, circa 1980.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, plate 96(3).

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LOT 1731

Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Plate Brooch with Beast Facing Back

Estimate £150 - 200€170 - 230 (for guidance only)$200 - 270 (for guidance only)

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