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LOT 1755
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Stirrup Apex Mount with Three Dimensional Face
11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (38.8 grams, 48 mm).
Anthropomorphic type with oval eyes, beard and hair raised to form a convex shape, flat cheeks, a wedge-shaped nose, hair dressed in lateral lobes, rivet hole above and another to the underside.
ProvenanceFound Norfolk, UK.
LiteratureCf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts Council for British Archaeology Research Reports no.111, London 1997, item 566, for type.
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LOT 1755
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Stirrup Apex Mount with Three Dimensional Face
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
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Pre-Viking Gold Aroma Bucket Pendant
4th-7th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Miniature drum-shaped vessel covered in filigree bobbles with strap handle. 0.72 grams, 15 mm
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. Westminster collection, central London, UK.
Pendants in the form of miniature buckets have been found in a number of pagan Anglo-Saxon and Viking contexts and are generally made of bronze or iron, with gold examples being rare; three gold examples were found with the hoard from Hoen, Norway. Bronze bucket amulets have been found at Driffield in Yorkshire, and Vimose bog in Denmark, among other places. In form they represent wooden buckets bound with bronze or iron bands which have been found in Anglo-Saxon and Viking graves and are believed to have held mead or ale and were used to replenish the cups from which warriors drank. As amulets they probably represent the ecstatic power of alcoholic drink and the role of women as the dispensers of these precious beverages.
