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LOT 1194

Sold for (Inc. bp): £78

LARGE ANGLO-SAXON CRUCIFORM BROOCH
6TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/8 in. (57 grams, 13 cm).

A bronze cruciform brooch comprising a rectangular headplate with trapezoidal flanking panels and three radiating squares with pairs of addorsed bird-heads; deep bow with domed centre; footplate flanked by annular lappets; horse-head foot with raised points for the eyes and discoid nostrils; pin-lug and catch to the reverse; repaired, a marriage. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Found UK.
Private York collection, 1992.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.

LITERATURE:
Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, fig.148, item 9 (foot), and fig.152, item 13 (body).

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