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LOT 1679
Saxon Bronze Artefact Group
CIRCA 6TH-9TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 - 3 in. (23.5 grams total, 19-76 mm).
Comprising: fragment of a lozenge brooch with chip-carved ornament; bifacial part of a buckle frame; beast-head finial from a strap-end (with later rivet hole); hooked fitting. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a Cambridgeshire, UK, collector.
From his private collection since the 1970s; thence by descent circa 2000.
Ex private collection of a Bedfordshire gentleman.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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