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LOT 1277
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
MEDIEVAL LEAD SHIELD-SHAPED WEIGHT WITH RAMPANT LION OF SIMON DE MONTFORT
CIRCA 13TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (117 grams, 49.4 mm).
CIRCA 13TH-15TH CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (117 grams, 49.4 mm).
Thick weight with ropework border and raised escutcheon, reserved lion rampant with fourché tail, rectangular mounting-slot; believed to be the arms of Simon de Montfort, killed at the Battle of Evesham in 1265. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
Found Southern England.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1980s.
From an East Anglian private collection.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Ashley, S., Medieval Armorial Horse Furniture in Norfolk, East Anglian Archaeology 101, Dereham, 2002, for discussion.
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