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LOT 0390
Viking Bronze Box Brooch with Interlaced Panels
8TH-9TH CENTURY AD
1 3/4" (62 grams, 44mm).
A hollow-cast drum-shaped brooch with four raised arms and central knop to the upper face; the outer sidewall with four panels of knotwork, dividing panels with hatched motif, D-shaped protrusion; the upper face with dense zoomorphic ornament; pin and catchplate to the reverse, four studs retaining the bottom plate to the upper.
Provenance
Property of a gentleman; formerly in a 19th century collection.
Literature
Cf. MacGregor, A. et al. A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 1.9.
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