Iron Age Celtic Silver Snake Bracelet

Composed of a penannular hoop with convex outer face, terminals formed as stylised snake heads, with incised eye and scale detailing to the terminals and shoulders. 18.4 grams, 57 mm



Acquired on the EU art market around 2000. From the collection of a North American gentleman.

The upper face slightly domed, attachment peg to the reverse; the face with grid of champlevé enamel in red and yellow. 17.2 grams, 31 mm



Found near Scarborough, Yorkshire, UK, recorded with York Museum. Formerly in an old Hampshire collection. Ex Chris Rudd collection, Norfolk, UK; formed since the 1970s. Collection number CE24. Accompanied by a Chris Rudd information card.

Chris Rudd has collected ancient coins and antiquities since the 1940s. As an amateur archaeologist he found many himself at Badbury Rings, Dorset, 1952-53. He also dug at Hod Hill with Professor Sir Ian Richmond and at Wroxeter with Dame Kathleen Kenyon and Dr Graham Webster. Today he is best known as a Celtic coin dealer. His catalogues have been described as ‘an important research source’ by Professor Sir Barry Cunliffe and ‘treasure houses of delight’ by Dr Anne Ross. Coins and artefacts associated with Chris Rudd – as a collector, dealer and valuer – can be seen in The British Museum and other museums. This collection was formed since the 1970s.

For a parallel-sided cavalry sword scabbard comprising: three bronze sleeves, with median openwork panels of triangles, bands of ring-and-dot ornament, open to the reverse; a similar fitting with two lateral lugs, straight sided plaque with V-shaped voids, upper discoid plaque with central oval hole, all with ring-and-dot ornament. 144 grams total, 4.5-10.7 cm



Acquired in the early 1970s. Ex property of a Surrey collector.