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LOT 1284
Bronze Age to Post Medieval Artefact Collection
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.-18TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/4 - 2 3/4 in. (244 grams total, 45-70 mm).
Comprising: rectangular bronze plaque with fluted surface; pair of bronze curved horns; round-section C-shaped child's bracelet; baroque furniture mount with scrolled palmette detailing; small bronze chisel with scooped end. [6, No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Berkshire, UK, by M. Ruczynski; the mount found Boxford in 2016.
Accompanied by a copy of a report for the Bronze Age Chisel by the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) with report no.BERK-DEF089.
Literature
See Pendleton, C.F., Bronze Age Metalwork in Northern East Anglia. A Study of its Distribution and Interpretation, B.A.R. British Series 279, Oxford, 1999, for discussion.
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