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LOT 1514
Viking Age Bronze and Lead Artefact Group
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 - 1 1/4 in. (18.6 grams total, 21-32 mm).
Comprising: a thumb ring with overlapping arms and lozenge cross-section; a lead trade weight for precious metals bearing pellet motifs to one face; a clothes fitting or other object with two discoid faces joined by an arm, each face displaying a central dome. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx DRG Coins and Antiquities, Essex, UK.
Ex private Merseyside, UK, collection.
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