anklet
- Museum number
- ML.1841
- Description
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Copper alloy anklet with one terminal missing.
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 83 - 87 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Stead and Rigby 1999
Artefacts from Diarville (Meurthe-et-Moselle)
The bronze torc (ML.1839), bracelets (ML.1843 and ML.1844) and anklets (ML.1840 and ML.1841) from Diarville are grouped together because they are sets of jewellery of the same form, but in different sizes, that come from Lorraine and cannot be matched precisely in Champagne. Although the torc resembles Champagne pieces of La Tène Ib, there is no parallel for the bracelets, and anklets were not worn in Champagne in La Tène I.
1. A grave-group, grave 1 (p. 151; Morel, L., 1890a, Tumulus de Diarville et d’Ambacourt, RA (1890, I), 240-42).
Findspot: Diarville ‘Devant Gillot’ (Meurhte-et-Moselle)
The account of the exploration of the remains of three barrows at Diarville gives the date as November and December 1888 (Morel 1890a), but a notice of the discoveries was read on 23 May 1888 (Morel, L., 1888, communication (Diarville) BAC, 209). Smith, R.A., 1925, ‘A guide to the antiquities of the Early Iron Age’ (second edition), London, 50-51; see also Olivier, L., 1988, Le tumulus à tombe à char de Marainville-sur-Madon (Vosges). Premiers resultants, in J.-P. Mohen, A. Duval and C. Eluère eds. ‘Les princes celtes et la Mediterranée’ (Paris), 285-6, where lieudit is named.
Tumulus 1: Morel bought a group of seven bronze artefacts from a M. Bastien, who had found them with human bones when he was levelling a barrow. Bastien seemed to have disturbed two or three graves, and he was able to assign grave-goods to one of them.
1. The following objects were found in the grave-group: ML.1839-ML.1841; ML.1843; ML.1844; ML.1847; ML.1849.
Bibliography: Morel 1890a, fig. 7.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- ML.1841