Roman Coloured Glass Bracelet Group

CIRCA 2ND-4TH CENTURY A.D.

1 5/8 - 2 1/8 in. (14.3 grams total, 42-55 mm).

Comprising one round-section in deep blue, one similar in deep red, and a D-section in pale blue/turquoise. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Formerly with a Bournemouth gentleman.
Ex Essex collection.
Property of a Scottish collector, acquired in 2013.

Literature

Cf. Ivleva, T,, 'The origin of Romano-British Glass Bangles: Forgotten Artefacts from the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age' in Britannia, 2020, pp.1-46, fig.3, for similar.

Footnotes

Bangles did not occur in a vacuum after the Roman invasion but were an integral part of globalising networks of cross-Channel trade and connections with the European mainland in the early first century A.D. According to J. Price bangles were first developed in southern Britain in the late Claudio-Neronian period (A.D. 43–65/70) and that in subsequent periods the craft of bangle-making quickly spread further north with the advance of the Roman army.

CONDITION

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