6th-7th century AD. A bronze bow brooch with headplate formed as two addorsed horse-heads surmounted by a fan-shaped knop, slender bow flanked by two vertical struts, footplate with pelta-shaped voids and violin-shaped finial; pin-lugs and remains of catch to the reverse. Cf. Menghin, W., The Merovingian Period. Europe Without Borders, Berlin, 2007, item III.20.4.27.7 grams, 97mm (4"). From a private Northwest country collection; previously in a north London collection; formerly from a 1950s private Austrian collection; accompanied by a collectors cataloguing slip.[No Reserve]