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LOT 1551
Iron Age Celtic Bronze Bull's Head Bowl Mount
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 7/8 in. (20 grams, 48 mm).
With splayed ears and hatched brow, loop above the brow, pelta-shaped terminal. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Cambridgeshire, UK in the 1980s.
Property of a Kent lady collector.
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Romano-Celtic Marble Head of a Warrior
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Squat carved head of a warrior with the hair cut close; reserved aquiline nose, incised lentoid eyes with carinated centres, slit mouth; old collector's label '286' to reverse; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 1.17 kg total, 15.7 cm including stand
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Iron Age Celtic 'East Anglia' Bronze Cosmetic Grinder
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