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1884.78.42

Bronze penannular ring torque with expanding ends.

1884.78.42

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Collection type
Object
Description
Bronze penannular ring torque with expanding ends.
Geographical reference
Unidentified
Unidentified
Date
Date collected
By 1874
Acquisition information
Donated: 1884 Exchanged: 1927
Materials and processes
Material Copper Alloy Metal, Material Bronze Metal
Dimensions
Length: max 140 mm, Width 132 mm, Depth 10 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1884.78.42
Research and responses

La Tène: the site of a great Iron Age votive deposit in the shallow water at the east end of Lake Neuchâtel Switzerland. Excavations in 1907-17 revealed wooden piles, two timber causeways and a mass of tools and weapons of bronze iron and wood. Some of these objects bore curvilinear patterns which are the hallmark of La Tène art everywhere ...La Tène has given its name to the second period of the European Iron Age ... [W Bray and D Trump, Penguin Dictionary of Archaeology, 1982 : 138] [AP Leverhulme project on founding collection 1995-1998]

Search terms: Ornament, Neck Ornament

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