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LOT 1160
Iron Age Celtic Bronze Toggle Fastener
CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 5/8 in. (16.9 grams, 43 mm).
With broad hexafoil rosette, voided trapezoidal plaque. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired early 2000s.
Property of a Stowmarket, UK, gentleman.
Cf. example from York in Smith, R.A., British Museum Guide to Early Iron Age Antiquities, reprinted Ipswich, 1994, p.151; Murawski, P., Benet's Artefacts of England and the United Kingdom, Ely, 2003, item I13-0204.
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