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Bronze Age Massive Brooch with Pendants,11th-10th century B.C.

Believed to be the largest known bronze brooch of it's type known to exist!

Formed as two lozenge-section bars with a tight spiral to each end, larger median spiral with coiled spring and wound catch; eight openwork vertical plaques each with a stylised duck above and loop, pair of rings twenty-three sword-shaped pendants and one chevron-shaped. 

855 grams, 40cm (15 3/4"). 

See similar brooch in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession Number: 2007.498.1a, b.

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