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LOT 1367
Viking Age Silver Thor's Hammer Pendant
10TH-12TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/2 in. (2.74 grams, 39 mm).
With stamped triangle and pellets to each face, curled suspension loop and silver-wire ring.
ProvenanceAcquired on the EU art market around 2000.
From the collection of a North American gentleman.
Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, item 126(5), for type.
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