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LOT 1655

Sold for (Inc. bp): £247

VIKING GILT BRONZE BROOCH WITH BEAST HEADS
9TH-11TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (7.38 grams, 25 mm).

Lozengiform in plan with central cross, the arms with beast-heads, central rectangular boss; remains of pin-lugs and catchplate to the reverse. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Private collection formed in Europe in the 1980s.
Westminster collection, central London, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

LITERATURE:
Cf. West, S. A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Finds From Suffolk, item 132/8 from Ufford.

CONDITION
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