Lot Essay
EXHIBITED:
Bury St. Edmunds Museum 1983-1986
Ipswich Museum 1986-1990
Cf. J. P. C. Kent and K. S. Painter (eds), Wealth of the Roman World A.D. 300-700, The British Museum, London, 1977, p. 28, no. 23 for a similar crossbow fibula in the form of a horse or boar, 4th Century A.D.
Bury St. Edmunds Museum 1983-1986
Ipswich Museum 1986-1990
Cf. J. P. C. Kent and K. S. Painter (eds), Wealth of the Roman World A.D. 300-700, The British Museum, London, 1977, p. 28, no. 23 for a similar crossbow fibula in the form of a horse or boar, 4th Century A.D.