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LOT 1558
Iron Age Celtic 'East Anglia' Bronze Terret Ring
1ST CENTURY B.C.-1ST CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (11.7 grams, 25 mm).
Comprising a round-section expanding shank, segmented bulbs. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found whilst searching with a metal detector in East Anglia, UK.
Literature
See discussion in Spratling, M.G., Southern British Decorated Bronzes of the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age, Institute of Archaeology, 1972.
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