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LOT 1675

Viking Age Bronze Zoomorphic Mount

10TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.

1 3/4 in. (12.4 grams, 44 mm).

Displaying a symmetrical openwork design of birds within a vinescroll; attachment pin to the reverse. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found Winteringham, Humberside, UK, in 1986.

Literature

Cf. similar imagery on a strap-end from Ixworth, Suffolk in West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, p.112, item 3.

CONDITION

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LOT 1675

Viking Age Bronze Zoomorphic Mount

Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)

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