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LOT 1181
Iron Age Celtic Bell
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
3 3/4 in. (178 grams, 95 mm).
A bronze hand bell with waisted profile, hole to accept a separate clapper and trapezoidal lug to the upper face with circular hole; section of rim absent. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired before 2000.
From the collection of a European gentleman living in the UK.
Literature
See Hamshere, J.D., Colonization and the Evolution of Rural Settlement in Worcestershire, Prior to 1349, Ph.D. thesis, University of Birmingham; Nash-Williams, V. E., The Early Christian Monuments of Wales, Cardiff, 1950.
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