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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]
Provenance
Found Cambridgeshire, UK in the 1980s.
Property of a Kent lady collector.
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