pendant
- Museum number
- ML.1588
- Description
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Pendant formed of an open ring of copper alloy wire with simple hooked ends, threaded with a pig canine (pierced).
- Production date
- 600 BC - 400 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 37 millimetres (tooth)
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Length: 26.50 millimetres (wire, across ends)
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Weight: 3 grammes (total)
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Thickness: 1.60 millimetres (wire)
- Curator's comments
- Stead and Rigby 1999
3rd maxillary (upper) incisor of a pig; quite worn (examined by Louise Martin).
Context: Beads and Amulets; Amuletic pendants; Animal or human bone; Pierced teeth.
Paralleled at Beine 'l' Argentelle' grave 20 with brooches of La Tène Ib, and in the de Baye collection from La Croix-en-Champagne (Thénot, A, 1982, ‘La civilisation celtique dans l’est de la France, d’après la collection de Baye’, Paris, pl. 46, 3).
Bibliography: Morel, L., 1898, ‘La Champagne souterraine’ Reims, pl. 22, fig. 10, described but no details of context given; 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, 1.
- Location
- On display (G50/dc13)
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.1588