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LOT 0356
Bronze Age Gold Hair Ring
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
1/2 in. (5.93 grams, 13 mm).
A round-section rod coiled and partly flattened to form a hair ornament.
ProvenanceBy repute found Lincolnshire in the 1960s.
From the collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green.
From the private collection of John Lawton, Surrey, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of a previous cataloguing information page.
See Taylor, J.T., Bronze Age Goldwork of the British Isles, Cambridge, 1980, for discussion.
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