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LOT 1710
Celtic Enamelled Bronze Dragonesque Brooch
IRON AGE, 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (8 grams, 34 mm).
S-shaped brooch fragment with a transverse band of triangular and lozenge cells across filled with enamel; the head with a large eye with light blue enamel, curving ear-terminal above. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found near Driffield, Yorkshire, UK, in 2020.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Literature
Cf. Hattatt, R., A Visual Catalogue of Richard Hattatt's Ancient Brooches, Oxford, 2000, p.351, fig.210.
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