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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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LOT 1723
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Stirrup Apex Mount
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
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Viking Age Silver Filigree Pendant
9th-11th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,105
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Very fine condition.
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s. Westminster collection, central London, UK. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Pre-Viking Gold Aroma Bucket Pendant
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Miniature drum-shaped vessel with strap handle, beaded wire bands to the bottom and sidewall, polished red stone insert to the base. 1.28 grams, 19 mm
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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. -
Viking Bronze Bifacial Tongue-Shaped Mount
9th-11th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Openwork type with opposed perching birds of prey flanking ahead. 11.4 grams, 31 mm
Property of a gentleman; acquired in the 1970s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
