pendant
- Museum number
- ML.1587
- Description
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Pendant formed of an open ring in copper alloy wire with simple hooked ends threaded with a perforated cockle-shell.
- Production date
- 600 BC - 400 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 35.80 millimetres (wire, across ends)
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Weight: 6 grammes (total)
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Thickness: 1.70 millimetres (wire)
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Width: 25.90 millimetres (pendant)
- Curator's comments
- Stead and Rigby 1999
Context: Beads and Amulets; Amuletic pendants; Shells.
Paralleled in the de Baye Collection from St-Jean-sur-Tourbe (Thénot, A, 1982, ‘La civilisation celtique dans l’est de la France, d’après la collection de Baye’, Paris, pl. 45, 5, = part of 6).
Bibliography: Morel, L., 1898, ‘La Champagne souterraine’ Reims, pl. 22, fig. 8; Déchelette, J., 1914, ‘Manuel d’archéologie préhistorique, celtique, et gallo-romaine’ 2, 3 ‘Second âge du fer ou épogue de La Tène’, Paris, fig. 560, 8.
- Location
- On display (G50/dc13)
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.1587