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LOT 0361
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Skeletal Stirrup Apex Mount
11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (25 grams, 50 mm).
A well defined Williams's Class A Type 6 mount comprising a D-shaped plaque with high-relief central tree or skeleton, a serpent to each lateral edge with divided tail coiled over the 'tree's' trefoil finial, head at the tree's base; beast-head finial with loop above; shallow ledge to the reverse, two circular piercings above.
Provenance
Found Lincolnshire, UK.
Literature
Cf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts, York, 1997, items 102-113.
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LOT 0361
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Skeletal Stirrup Apex Mount
Sold for (Inc. bp): £481
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