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LOT 1723
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Stirrup Apex Mount
10TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (25.6 grams, 47 mm).
Williams's Class A Type 1 with pentagonal profile and incised ornamentation depicting two crude enmeshed tendrils in Anglo-Scandinavian style; two rivet holes. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Suffolk, UK, circa 2000.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts - A Classification and Catalogue, CBA Research Report 111, Oxford, 1997, p.26ff.
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