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LOT 1648
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Stirrup Apex Mount
11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (27.36 grams, 39 mm).
Of Williams's Class B Type 3 Group 1 with openwork plaque, bear-head beneath two opposed wolf-heads, angled ledge with ferrous fixing studs. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Suffolk, UK.
Literature
Cf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts, York, 1997, item 420.
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