Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Stirrup Mount with Howling Beast

Comprising: silver wire finger ring; silver wire loop with lozenge pendant, impressed cross potent; wire earring with two seed beads. 4.46 grams total, 19-37 mm



Property of the vendor's grandfather, thence by family descent, circa 1985. From the private collection of a New York, USA gentleman.

Axehead with sunburst motif to one face; suspension loop with coiled ends. 1.92 grams, 32 mm



Ex German art market, 2000s. Acquired from an EU collector living in London. From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.

A flat-section Mordvinian type brooch comprising a penannular band and two trapezoidal plates; the tongue round-section with flat scroll around the band; the plates each with raised pellets and four pierced lugs to the outer edges. 12.4 grams, 55 mm



Ex property of an Essex gentleman. Property of a Scottish collector, acquired in 2013.

This type of brooch belongs to the typologies of the omega brooches. It was probably used by Ugro-Finnic people to fasten the shirt at the neck or to attach other lighter garments. These brooches evolved to become very elaborate, with dangling springs from the edges, and were often worn in pairs, destined to female garments. In this late Viking period their coins demonstrated Russian and Eastern Roman influences in their art and jewellery.