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LOT 0455
Viking Gilt-Bronze Trefoil Brooch
9TH-10TH CENTURY AD
2" (37 grams, 53mm).
A cast trefoil brooch with pelletted border, discoid central boss and knotwork; slightly dished in profile, catchplate and pin-lug to the reverse.
Provenance
Found Saxby, Lincolnshire, UK, in 1978.
Literature
Cf. Hammond, B. British Artefacts vol.2 - Middle Saxon & Viking, Witham, 2010, item 1.1.5-a.
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