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LOT 1294
Iron Age British Celtic Catuvellauni Bronze Fastener
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (10.44 grams, 35 mm).
Or clothes fastener, boss-and-loop type. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found Higham Ferrers, Northants, UK.
Ex Chris Rudd collection, Norfolk, UK; formed since the 1970s.
Collection number CE34.
Accompanied by a Chris Rudd information card.
Footnotes
Chris Rudd has collected ancient coins and antiquities since the 1940s. As an amateur archaeologist he found many himself at Badbury Rings, Dorset, 1952-53. He also dug at Hod Hill with Professor Sir Ian Richmond and at Wroxeter with Dame Kathleen Kenyon and Dr Graham Webster. Today he is best known as a Celtic coin dealer. His catalogues have been described as ‘an important research source’ by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe and ‘treasure houses of delight’ by Dr Anne Ross. Coins and artefacts associated with Chris Rudd – as a collector, dealer and valuer – can be seen in The British Museum and other museums. This collection was formed since the 1970s.
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