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LOT 840

Sold for (Inc. bp): £489

EARLY MEDIEVAL - BALTIC TWISTED SILVER TORC
(105 grams, 142 mm.).

Circa 12-14th century AD. A circular-section expanding silver torc with spiral-wound filigree; the terminals formed from tight-wound, flat-section wire; the finials formed as elliptical loops.

PROVENANCE:
Property of an English gentleman.

LITERATURE:
HÃ¥rdh, Silver in the Viking Age: A Regional-Economic Study, Stockholm, 1996

CONDITION