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LOT 1224
Scandinavian Viking Silver Equal-Arm Brooch
9TH CENTURY A.D.
5 in. (52.4 grams, 13 cm).
A silver equal-arm brooch of Aargård Type III A, with central segmented boss, symmetrical lozengiform scooped flanges with Borre Style low-relief geometric ornament and trefoil finial, ferrous pin to the reverse with lugs and catch, short length of copper-alloy suspension chain attached to a loop to the reverse. [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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