Lot 94
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The Wigston Magna Anglo-Saxon bronze brooch, the large rectangular head plate and foot decorated with stylized heads in low relief, with two decorated side panels, Kenninghall II type -- 4¾in. (12.1cm.) long; and a group of bronze Anglo-Saxon fibulae and fittings including four cruciform and long brooches -- 2 5/8in. (6.6cm.) long max., a bronze pin with loop attachment -- 2in. (5cm.) long, and a bronze ring -- 2½in. (6.2cm.) diam., 6th Century A.D. (13)

Details
The Wigston Magna Anglo-Saxon bronze brooch, the large rectangular head plate and foot decorated with stylized heads in low relief, with two decorated side panels, Kenninghall II type -- 4¾in. (12.1cm.) long; and a group of bronze Anglo-Saxon fibulae and fittings including four cruciform and long brooches -- 2 5/8in. (6.6cm.) long max., a bronze pin with loop attachment -- 2in. (5cm.) long, and a bronze ring -- 2½in. (6.2cm.) diam., 6th Century A.D. (13)
Provenance
Wigston Magna, Leicestershire; the group was found in 1795 while digging gravel for the road leading from Leicester to Welford

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
C. Roach-Smith, Collectanea Antiqua, II, pt. 6, pp. 167-168, pl. XLII; E. Thurlow Leeds, A Corpus of Early Anglo-Saxon Great Square-headed Brooches, Oxford, 1949, pp. 79 (n.3), 81, 86 (n.2), pl. 136, where he notes that the whereabouts of the Wigston Magna brooch was unknown

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