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LOT 0700
Romano-British Tinned Bronze Hare Brooch
2ND CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (3.89 grams, 23 mm).
In the form of a crouching hare with remains of red niello on the body; remains of pin-lugs and catchplate on the verse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound East Anglia, UK.
From a Kent collection formed in the 1990s.
Cf. Hattatt, R., Brooches of Antiquity, Oxford, 1987, item 1192.
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