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LOT 0315
Viking Bronze Borre Style Brooch Set
10TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
2 7/8 - 19 7/8 in. (280 grams total, 7.2 - 50.5 cm).
Comprising: two elliptical bronze tortoise brooches, each domed with raised ornament of four Borre-style faces with pellet eyes to the centre of a panel of body parts and hatching with two more faces to the narrow ends, wide flange, catchplate, pin-hinge and pendant attachment bar to the reverse; equal-arm brooch with two trapezoidal arms, each with raised Borre-Style geometric ornament, masks to the ends and central domed panel, lugs for the pin to the reverse, pierced lug to accept the chain; short chains of double-links. [4]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
LiteratureSee MacGregor, A. et al., A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 4.
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