- Museum number
- ML.1672
- Description
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Shale armlet; deep D-shaped section, flaked.
- Production date
- 500 BC - 300 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Thickness: 11.50 - 13.40 millimetres (cross-section)
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Diameter: 97 - 100 millimetres
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Height: 29.10 millimetres (max)
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Weight: 103 grammes
- Curator's comments
- Stead and Rigby 1999
Findspot: Corroy 'Pont-de-L'Isle' (Marne)
A small group of six graves, including two warriors, each with a long sword in a scabbard - the longest swords excavated by Morel, each about 1m long (Morel 1898, 144). Corroy is one of the sites mentioned by Morel (Morel, L., 1875c, communication (‘Album’) CAF, 42, 74-6) and Bertrand (Bertrand, A., 1876a, 'Archéologie celtique et gauloise', Paris) lists twenty-five graves from two cemeteries. Smith, R.A., 1925, ‘A guide to the antiquities of the Early Iron Age’ (second edition), London, 73.
Grave 3: Another burial which contained only this armlet.
Context: Shale bangles; Bracelets.
Those found in Hallstatt D contexts are usually quite deep and D-shaped in section, e.g. Les Jogasses graves 31, 132, 133, 172, 183. Some were worn in pairs with one on each arm (graves 31 and 132), and some singly (graves 172 and 183), whilst in grave 133 there were two on one arm and one on the other. Favret (Favret, P.-M., 1936, Les necropolis des Jogasses à Chouilly (Marne), ‘Préhistoire’ (5), 77) records that two were armlets and nine were worn on the wrists. Not fashionable at the beginning of La Tène I, shale bangles are found again in La Tène Ic and II contexts, worn by men and women on the upper arm or on the wrist. These later pieces were usually circular or oval in section. Examples worn on the wrist: Normée grave 7, Beine 'le Montéqueux' (with a warrior), and Charpy, J.-J., and Roualet, P., 1991, ‘Les Celtes en Champagne’ (exh. cat., Epernay, 23/6 - 3/11/1991), nos 244-8; armlets with women: Villesneux grave 2, St-Benoît-sur-Seine grave 42, Caurel 'la Fosse Minore' grave 33; armlets with men: Witry-les-Reims 'la Voie Carlat' grave 22, Loisy-sur-Marne grave 9; other armlets, Charpy and Roualet 1991, nos 249-57.
Large armlets: Internal diameter 73-80 mm, externally 97-103 mm.
Bibliography: Morel, L., 1898, ‘La Champagne souterraine’ Reims, 144 (calling it a bracelet) and pl. 33, fig. 6; resembles the Hallstatt D type in section, but it is very large.
- Location
- On display (G50/dc25)
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.1672