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LOT 1265
Scandinavian Viking Equal-Arm Brooch
9TH CENTURY A.D.
3 in. (32.7 grams, 73 mm).
A bronze equal-arm brooch of Aargård Type III A, with central segmented boss, symmetrical flanges with low-relief geometric ornament and trefoil finial, raised studs to the panels of the trefoils and the central boss, pin to the reverse with lugs and separate rivetted catch (ancient repair?), single link from a copper-alloy suspension chain attached beside the pin-lug. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired before 1960.
From the family collection of a UK gentleman, by descent in the early 1970s.
Literature
See Aargaard, G.B., Gleivasrmige Spangen in Arwidsson, G. (ed.), Systemastische Analysen der Graberfunde Birka II:2, Stockholm, 1986; Kershaw, J.F., Viking Identities. Scandinavian Jewellery in England, Oxford, 2013, item 3.50.
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