Scandinavian Viking Boar Brooch. 9th-10th century A.D. A hollow-formed bronze boar-head brooch with domed upper face, two small lug ears, underside with central void, pin-lugs present; panels of linear ornament to the upper face and sidewall. Cf. animal-head brooches in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, in MacGregor, A. et al. A Summary Catalogue of the Continental Archaeological Collections, Oxford, 1997, item 3.10. 40.3 grams, 50 mm (2 in.) Collection formed in the 2000s. Property of an English gentleman. [No Reserve]

Fair condition; ritually crushed and folded.