Celtic to Medieval Bronze Ring Collection

1ST CENTURY B.C.-16TH CENTURY A.D.

3/4 - 1 in. (24.4 grams total, 20-26 mm).

Comprising: five rings with decorative bezels; a penannular ring; an unfinished ring with a circular hole in the bezel. [7, No Reserve]

Provenance

Acquired on the UK and EU art market before 2000.
From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.

Literature

Cf. PAS no. DUR-00F326, for a similar Celto-Roman spiral ring, dated 200 B.C.-200 A.D.

Footnotes

Among the group is one complete copper-alloy finger ring of late Iron Age to Roman date (200 B.C - 200 A.D.). It is coiled into a spiral of two and a half turns. Both ends terminated in a square end with rounded corners.

CONDITION

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LOT 1691