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Viking Gilt Bronze Brooch with Beast Heads Viking Gilt Bronze Brooch with Beast Heads Viking Gilt Bronze Brooch with Beast Heads
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LOT 1655

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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LOT 1655

Viking Gilt Bronze Brooch with Beast Heads

Sold for (Inc. bp): £247

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