Spiral bronze bracelet of 4 coils, with incised linear decoration on terminals. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 6/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Spiral bronze bracelet of 4 coils, with incised linear decoration on terminals. [LM 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 6/10/2005]
Geographical reference: Europe
Europe; Unknown
Person: Maker Unknown Maker; Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Iron Age
Date collected: ?By 1881
Acquisition information: Donated: 1884
Materials and processes: Material Bronze Metal, Process Incised
Dimensions: Diameter: max 84 mm, Width: max 21 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1884.82.120 PR no.: 437/ 12191
Research and responses: This object was examine by Dr Zena Kamash as part of the Fell funded project Characterizing the World Archaeology Collections. She noted that this object is not Roman, but rather Iron Age. It is very similar to examples in the Morel Collection of Iron Age material from Champagne in the British Museum. See Stead, I.M. and Rigby, V. 1999: The Morel Collection: Iron Age antiquities from Champagne in the British Museum (London), fig 101, nos 1559, 2080 and 2062. [AS 14/02/2011]