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LOT 1793
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Stirrup Apex Mount
ENGLAND, 11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 in. (17.9 grams, 46 mm).
Triangular mount of Williams's Class A Type 14 with three radiating arms at the apex and rivet-hole between, low-relief chevron to the plaque, angled ledge to the lower edge with median rivet-hole. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound UK.
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
Cf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts, York, 1997, item 352.
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