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LOT 1744
Saxon Monumental Cross Shaft Fragment
8TH-10TH CENTURY A.D.
7 1/4 in. (4.8 kg, 18.5 cm).
Dressed block with carved ornament to two faces: Side A: within a lateral frame, high-relief ring-chain section in three-strand format; Side B: three-strand arch intersecting with a four-strand segment and adjacent raised panel, possibly a section of a wing; repaired.
Provenance
Private collection, England.
Literature
Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, pl.XIII.
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