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LOT 1387
Viking Age Bronze Riding Crop Terminal with Eagle's Head
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (20.5 grams, 36 mm).
Displaying stylised feather, head and beak detailing; one piercing to neck for attachment; hollow-formed. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
LiteratureCf. Griciuviene, E., Žiemgaliai - The Semigalians, Vilnius, 2005, item 881.
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LOT 1387
Viking Age Bronze Riding Crop Terminal with Eagle's Head
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
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Pre-Viking Bronze Twisted Torc
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Pre-Viking Gold Filigree Aroma Bucket Pendant
4th-7th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £410
Adorned with repoussé chevrons and applied granules; replaced loop. 1.17 grams, 15 mm
From the collection of a North American gentleman, formed in the 1990s.
Pendants in the form of miniature buckets have been found in a number of pagan Anglo-Saxon and Viking contexts and are generally made of bronze or iron, with gold examples being rare; three gold examples were found with the hoard from Hoen, Norway. Bronze bucket amulets have been found at Driffield in Yorkshire, and Vimose bog in Denmark, among other places. In form they represent wooden buckets bound with bronze or iron bands which have been found in Anglo-Saxon and Viking graves and are believed to have held mead or ale and were used to replenish the cups from which warriors drank. As amulets they probably represent the ecstatic power of alcoholic drink and the role of women as the dispensers of these precious beverages.
