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Description: | The find comprises seven gold penannular bracelets. Five of these have a C-shaped cross section and flat, outwardly-projecting terminals; one has a thicker body which is internally concave and solider, outwardly-expanding terminals. The seventh has a plain, flat body with solid, evenly-expanded terminals.Maximum external diameters range between 57 and 67.5mm; the maximum breadth of the C-sectioned bracelets is 10.5mm and the thickness is 0.5mm at the edges. The second variety has a narrower body at 9mm and is thicker at 1.5mm; the third variety has a maximum breadth of 8mm and a thickness of 1mm.All are slightly distorted and have a patchy, sooty discolouration probably resulting from the conditions of burial.Four of the bracelets were found 'in a clump' 18-24 ins. deep and the others singly only 18 ins. away and at approximately the same depth; there can be no doubt of their association as a hoard.IdentificationAll three types are well known in the British Late Bronze Age, c 950-750BC. They find their best analogues in (respectively) Eogan's Variety 3/Needhan C*; Eogan Variety 4/Needham C; Eogan Variety 1/Needham B1. Other gold bracelet hoards in which one or more of the types are represented include the two Bexley (Kent) hoards and those from Tisbury, Wiltshire; Morvah, Cornwall; Caister-on-sea, Norfolk.References:Eogan, G. 1994. The Accomplished Art: gold and gold-working in Britain and Ireland during the Bronze Age (c. 2300-650BC). Oxbow Monograph 42.Hook, D. R. and Needham, S. P. 1989. 'A comparison of recent analyses of British Late Bronze Age goldwork with Irish parallels'. Jewellery Studies vol. 3, pp 15-25.
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