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LOT 0590
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]
ProvenanceFormerly with a Bournemouth gentleman.
Ex Essex collection.
Property of a Scottish collector, acquired in 2013.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
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.
FootnotesBangles 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.
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