- Museum number
- 1854,0714.9
- Description
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Bronze crotal: hollow cast spherical pendant enclosing a small metal lump to serve as a rattle; initially cast with side perforations to allow extraction of clay core and insertion of rattle; cast ring for suspension.
- Production date
- 950BC-750BC
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 60 millimetres
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Length: 160 grammes
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Weight: 452.20 grammes
- Curator's comments
- Part of a hoard. Found in a bog during the 1820s. The hoard included five swords; chape, purse-shaped; one spearhead, lunate-shaped openings in the wings; 34 spearheads, plain leaf-shaped; 35 axes (G. Eogan, The Socketed Bronze Axes in Ireland, Prehistorische Bronzefunde IX, 22 (2000) nos. 88, 303-305, 363-365, 377, 409, 500, 596, 597, 776-784, 1154-1157, 1259, 1260, 1379, 1564, 1565, 1626-1630, 1704); socketed hammer; four socketed gouges, three socketed knives; four tanged knives; three razors (A. Jockenhövel, Die Raisermesser in Westeuropa, Prehistorische Bronzefunde VIII, 3 (1980), Nr. 190, 191, 195); bucket (S. Gerloff, Atlantic Cauldrons and Buckets, Prehistorische Bronzefunde II, 15, no. 95); base of bucket (Gerloff, Prehistorische Bronzefunde II, 15, no. 102); two angle plates from base of bucket, probably insular type (Gerloff, Prehistorische Bronzefunde II, 15, no. 103); cauldron (Gerloff, Prehistorische Bronzefunde II, 15, no. 12); fragments of two cauldrons (Gerloff, Prehistorische Bronzefunde II, 15, nos. 20 a. b; 43); seven horns, end blow; nine horns, side blow; 48 crotals; tube with expanded circular foot; object with round bulbous head and somewhat triangular shaped blade; part of flat axe; three pieces of hollow "bronze" tube; two lumps of waste bronze; six sandstone pieces.
Artefacts in the British Museum: 1853,1121.1-2; 1854,0714.9-20; 1854,0714.27; 1854,0714.32-33; 1854,0714.174-182; 1854,0714.217; 1854,0714.219-223; 1854,0714.229-230; 1854,0714.267-275; 1854,0714.278; 1854,0714.282-285; 1854,0714.288-291; 1854,0714.313-315; 1883,0218.1-10 (10 or 11); 1883,0218.12-15; 1883,0218.17- 18; 1883,0218.41; the sheet fragment 1854,0714.357 had previously been listed as part of the hoard but this cannot be proven)
Artefacts in the National Museum of Ireland (SA. 57 i.A; SA. 57 i.A No. 1-4; 1881:1; 1882:40; R. 1981. 1985. 1986.; W. 1. 11. 35. 52. 66. 137 [B. 34]. 280-282).
Also see: Jockenhövel, PBF VIII, 3 (1980) 72 f. Nr. 190. 191. 195 Taf. 11, 190. 191. 195; 94-96, A; Eogan, Hoards 117 ff. no. 119 figs. 64-79; S. Gerloff, Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries Ireland (Dublin) 116, 1986 no. 20; Eogan 2000 (Appendix C: H20, p. 218)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2022 17 Feb - 17 Jul, London, BM, G30, The world of Stonehenge
2019 Oct – Dec, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery, Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain
2019 28 Jun – 28 Sep, Brading Roman Villa, Isle of Wight, Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain
2019 13 Apr – 16 Jun, Buxton Museum and Art Gallery, Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain
2019 18 Jan – 31 Mar, Ulster Museum, NMNI, Belfast, Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain
2018-2019 13 Oct – 5 Jan, Salisbury Museum, Hoards: the hidden history of ancient Britain
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1854,0714.9
