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LOT 1676

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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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