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LOT 1762
Viking Age Bronze Studded Cross Fitting
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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