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LOT 1775
British Celtic Enamelled Bronze Trefoil Mount
IRON AGE, 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (5.5 grams, 21 mm).
Formed as a trefoil with a central boss and stem to the reverse; each lobe with an eccentrically placed circular enamel-filled cell. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Thrapston, Northamptonshire, UK.
Recorded with UKDFD no.53268.
Cf. the openwork trefoil fittings with La Tène designs from Stanwick published in Smith, R.A., British Museum Guide to Early Iron Age Antiquities 1925, reprinted Ipswich, 1994, p.138-42.
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