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LOT 1310
Viking Bronze Disc Brooch with Regardant Beast
9TH CENTURY A.D.
1 1/8 in. (6.29 grams, 29 mm).
Displayed in low-relief with raised tail, pellet eye, radiating mane, band of pellets to the border; pin-lug and catch to the reverse. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Norfolk, UK.
Literature
Cf. West, S., A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, East Anglian Archaeology 84, Ipswich, 1998, item 10-4.
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