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LOT 0294
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Gilt Bronze Urnes Stirrup Apex Mount
11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 in. (17.8 grams, 55 mm).
Heater-shaped in profile with openwork Urnes Style interlace, holes for attachment pins to lower corners, beast-head finial to apex; remains of attachment rivets and strap to reverse.
ProvenanceFound Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK.
LiteratureCf. Williams, D., Late Saxon Stirrup-Strap Mounts, York, 1997, item 192.
FootnotesA high-quality gilded example, for which we can find no parallel, extremely rare.
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LOT 0294
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Gilt Bronze Urnes Stirrup Apex Mount
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
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