Pre-Viking Bronze Proto Boar's Head Brooch

7TH-8TH CENTURY A.D.

1 3/4 in. (15.4 grams, 46 mm).

Formed as a keeled sub-triangular plaque, convex in profile with bulbs on the flanks extending to a short rounded projection; integral catchplate to reverse and remains of ferrous pin. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired early 2000s.
East Anglia, UK, collection.

Literature

Cf. MacGregor, A. et al., A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 3.5.

Footnotes

This form of brooch developed from Scandinavian Iron Age forms of bow brooch with crossbar, bow and footplate; it later evolved into the standard form of boar-head brooch.

CONDITION

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