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LOT 1698
Celtic to Medieval Bronze Ring Collection
1ST CENTURY B.C.-16TH CENTURY A.D.
3/4 - 1 in. (23.99 grams total, 20-24 mm).
Comprising: five rings with decorative bezels, one coiled ring with D-section hoop. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK and EU art market before 2000.
From the private collection of a Surrey, UK, gentleman.
Cf. PAS no. DUR-00F326, for a similar Celto-Roman spiral ring, dated 200 BC-200 AD.
FootnotesThe collection includes one complete copper-alloy finger ring of late Iron Age to Roman date (200 BC - AD 200). It is coiled into a spiral of two turns. Both extremities terminated in a square end with rounded corners.
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