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Romano-British Enamelled Bronze Eagle Brooch Romano-British Enamelled Bronze Eagle Brooch Romano-British Enamelled Bronze Eagle Brooch
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LOT 0596

Romano-British Enamelled Bronze Eagle Brooch

CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D.

1 1/8 in. (2.6 grams, 29.3 mm).

Plate brooch formed as a raptor with champlevé red and green enamelled cells to the body, eye and wing; to the reverse, the pin-lugs, bar and catchplate. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found near Droxford, Hampshire, UK.
From an old Hampshire collection.
Recorded with Winchester Museum.
Private collection, London.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

Literature

Cf. Mackreth, D.F., Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain, Oxford, 2011, vol.2, items 8043, 12694 (plate 126).

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LOT 0596

Romano-British Enamelled Bronze Eagle Brooch

Sold for (Inc. bp): £143

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