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LOT 1335
Viking Age Bronze Interlaced Pendant
8TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (3 grams, 34 mm).
With quatrefoil body formed as an endless knot; integral suspension loop. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired in the 1990s.
Ex property of a German collector.
Literature
Cf. the openwork roundels of Viking date from Luistari in Lehtosalo-Hilander, P-L., Luistari II The Artefacts, Helsinki, 1982, fig.26, and more complex Anglo-Saxon mounts in Wilson, D.M., Catalogue of Antiquities of the Later Saxon Period, Volume I: Anglo-Saxon Metalwork 700-1100 in the British Museum, London, 1964, items 105-7.
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