LOT 2080 Large Viking Decorated Keys on Ring Group
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9th-12th century AD. A mixed group of three free-running iron keys with pierced terminals on a round-sectioned hoop; one with balustered shaft inlaid with circumferential bands of brass and discoid head with foliate void; one with balustered shaft flaring to a rectangular lower body with central ellipsoidal void flanked by incised hatched lines to one face and an ellipsoidal head with multi-armed void; one with cylindrical shaft tapering at both ends and a discoid head with notched void. Cf. Arbman, H., Birka I: Die Gräber, Uppsala, 1940, for comparable examples and discussion. 120 grams, 18.5cm (7 1/4"). From the family collection of a UK gentleman, by descent in the early 1970s; previously acquired before 1960. [No Reserve]
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