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Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 in. (56 grams, 49 mm).
Cruciform mount with three radiating lobes and a fourth slotted section; each lobe with separately cast boss; each boss with upper face divided into four segments, two plain and two with deep hatching; ferrous stains to underside showing attachment points, ferrous stain to the slotted centre; possibly from a portable shrine or reliquary. [No Reserve]
PROVENANCE:
From a North Yorkshire, UK, private collection.
Acquired from Adam Partridge Auctioneers, Macclesfield, UK.
Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Youngs, S. (ed.), The Work of Angels. Masterpieces of Celtic Metalwork, 6th-9th centuries AD, London, 1989, item 141, for type from an Insular (Irish) context.
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